The soldiers and horses of Xixia are not like the soldiers and horses of Huangtou Huihe.
In Liu Heng’s understanding.
Xixia's soldiers and horses were very good at conquering and fighting, far beyond what Huangtou Huihe's soldiers and horses could compare with.
Li Yuanhao, the prince of the false life, led 3,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of servants, and dared to go deep into the Western Regions and swept across the two major forces of Ganzhou Uighur and Shazhou Uighur.
If Qingtang and Huangtou Uighurs want to deal with Ganzhou Uighurs and Shazhou Uighurs, they will need a hundred thousand soldiers.
Such a comparison is enough to illustrate the pros and cons of the Xixia soldiers and horses.
They led thousands of elite soldiers and more than 10,000 civilians. They were able to defeat Huangtou Huihe's troops because they took advantage of the geographical advantage.
Now Xixia soldiers and horses are besieging Shazhou City, occupying an absolute geographical advantage.
If Li Yuanhao leads his men to ambush them, it will be difficult for them to win.
Kou Ji seemed to notice Liu Heng's worries and smiled and said, "If Li Yuanhao sends someone to ambush us, that would be great news."
Liu Heng looked sideways at Kou Ji.
Kou Ji continued with a smile: "If Li Yuanhao sent people to ambush us, it means that they failed to capture Shazhou City. Since our soldiers have the strength to resist the repeated attacks by the soldiers and horses led by Li Yuanhao, it means that there are many of them.
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This proves that their lives are not in danger for the time being."
Liu Heng said dumbfounded: "They don't have to worry about their lives, but we do."
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng and asked seriously: "What worries do we have about our lives? Li Yuanhao only has 3,000 heavy armored cavalry and tens of thousands of servants. We also have 3,000 heavy armored cavalry and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
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If we really have to face each other, it’s not certain who will win and who will lose.
Besides, our mission is to deliver food, not to fight.
Our strength is enough for us to tear open a hole and transport the food back under Li Yuanhao's blockade.
As for whether Li Yuanhao will ambush us and whether he can ambush us, that depends on you.
You have spies from the Imperial City Department in your hands, and the scouts in the army are currently at your disposal.
If there is an ambush on our way, it will be your dereliction of duty.
If we die because of this, we will also die in your hands."
When Liu Heng heard this, he said with a grimace: "You said that, I'm under a lot of pressure."
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng and said, "I'm not kidding you."
Liu Heng sighed and said: "I know, I will go back right away and send out all the detective horses under my command. I will not give Li Yuanhao a chance to sneak attack on us."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, glanced at the yellow sand in the distance, and said calmly: "Instruct us to go down and set up camp on the spot."
The yellow sand in the distance is very large, and has a tendency to block out the sky and the sun.
Kou Ji was afraid that his soldiers and horses would encounter a sandstorm, so he decisively ordered to camp on the spot.
The peasants drove the prisoners and quickly set up tents, and the patrolling horse guards gathered together to search for water nearby.
When marching in Shazhou, water source is the most important thing.
In order to prevent the water source from being polluted or someone tampering with the water source, we have to search for water sources and replenish the water, which is always done by patrolling horse guards.
Others cannot interfere at all.
The patrolling horse guards were out for more than an hour, and they did not return to the camp until after dark and when the wind was howling fiercely.
Once back at camp.
The leader of the patrol horse guards found Kou Ji.
"Young Master, there are quite a few water sources nearby, but not much that is usable. Some of them are undrinkable, and some of them contain dead cows, dead sheep, and dead horses...
The little people found a spring a few meters away from here, and the water in it was barely usable."
After listening to the words of the leader of the patrolling horse guards, Kou Ji put down the pen he was writing a letter on and said in deep thought: "It seems that the fighting in Shazhou is very fierce, otherwise Li Yuanhao would not use this method to hold us back."
The leader of the patrol horse guards nodded solemnly.
Kou Ji pondered for a moment and then ordered: "Go and get people to watch, and tell everyone that when drinking water, they must boil it before drinking. No cold water is allowed.
Then go to the civilian camp and tell the civilians who have had time to go all the way.
Let those among them who can sew water bladders sew more water bladders as soon as possible to prepare for emergencies.
After you go out, call Liu Heng to my tent."
The leader of the patrolling horse guards agreed and exited the tent.
Not long after, Liu Heng entered the tent.
When Kou Ji saw Liu Heng, he directly gave instructions: "I'm afraid the road ahead will be difficult. We bring a huge number of cattle and sheep, which will become a burden to us.
The troops led by Li Zhaoliang have arrived at the junction of Huangtou Uihe and Shazhou.
It is impossible for the soldiers and horses of the Yellow-headed Huihe to appear behind us again. We are safe behind us.
You divide a thousand soldiers from the Japanese army and ask them to take a thousand yellow-headed Huihe prisoners to station here and guard the cattle and sheep.
After Li Zhaoliang arrives, he will rush to Shazhou City with Li Zhaoliang."
Liu Heng frowned and said, "Would it be a bit rash to allocate troops to garrison here at a critical moment?"
Kou Ji shook his head, "We are reducing our burden now. Without the burden of a huge number of cattle and sheep, not only will we not become weaker, but we will become stronger and our marching speed will be faster."
Liu Heng was about to speak when Kou Ji continued: "The strength of the patrolling horse guards is far more powerful than that of the Forbidden Army soldiers. The horse thieves have just been conquered, and their loyalty has yet to be tested.
The people couldn't keep the cattle and sheep.
No one can guarantee whether the Xixia soldiers and horses will sneak around and attack."
Liu Heng also wanted to say whether he should send men to guard the cattle and sheep, but before he could say anything, Kou Ji blocked him.
Liu Heng pondered for a moment and nodded slowly, "I'll go down and make arrangements right away."
After Liu Heng left, Kou Ji finished writing the letter, sealed it, and prepared to send someone to send it back tomorrow.
What he wrote was a private letter, not an official document, so he couldn't go through the official channels in Liu Heng's hands.
Kou Ji has been calculating the time since Xiang Yan became pregnant.
If Kou Ji's calculations are correct, Xiang Yan should give birth in the near future.
But he never got any news, so he wrote back to ask.
After putting away the letter, Kou Ji put on his clothes and went to sleep.
A night of silence.
The next day.
early morning.
After getting up.
Kou Ji spat, lifted up the blanket covering his body and shook it, causing a burst of dust to fly.
After entering Shazhou.
It's the same every day when I wake up.
The strong wind swept the yellow sand and penetrated every hole.
As long as you stay in one place for more than an hour, a layer of yellow sand will fall on your body.
When you wake up after a night's sleep, the place where you live will be covered with layers of yellow sand, as if no one has lived there for a long time.
Kou Ji shook off the blanket, changed his clothes, washed up, and after eating, he left two thousand people to guard hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep. He took the remaining people and set foot on the road again.
The road to Shazhou City.
They traveled thirty miles along the way.
Then he bumped into Xixia's yangqi.
The Xixia knights were very arrogant. After meeting Kou Ji and his party, they did not run away immediately, but followed Kou Ji not far away.
If Kou Ji sent people to chase them, they would flee far away.
After the men sent by Kou Ji return to their side, Xixia's cavalry will appear in Kou Ji's sight again.
Kou Ji frowned when he saw those Xixia knights appearing.
The leader of the patrolling horse guard frowned when he saw Kou Ji, and hurriedly came to Kou Ji's side, explaining to Kou Ji: "This is a common trick used by the Xixia and Liao cavalry. They knew that we in the Song Dynasty did not have good horses, so they relied on their crotch
The horses are excellent, and they often harass me when my soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty are marching.
Neither attack nor leave.
Just follow silently."
Kou Ji frowned and said, "Pressure?"
The leader of the patrol horse guards nodded.
The war between soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty was different from that of Xixia and Liao, where you could gallop thousands of miles on horseback.
In the Song Dynasty, military and horse battles often involved huge teams of baggage.
Those who escorted the baggage were all civilian husbands.
The Xixia and Liao Kingdoms could rely on the mobility of their rangers to frequently harass the baggage teams and put pressure on the civilians.
When civilians see enemies walking around them, they will feel very nervous and will panic after a while.
When the peasants began to flee under the threat of the rangers.
The rangers will swarm up, and the civilians will be frightened and scatter.
There are no civilian men to guard the baggage.
The rangers would wantonly burn the baggage of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses.
Without the baggage, it would be difficult for the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty to continue fighting on the grassland for a long time.
In the past, this was almost an unsolvable tactic.
The Song Dynasty often suffered from this tactic.
But it's different now.
Kou Ji has a musket and an invincible mine cannon in his hand.
Kou Ji saw those Xixia knights laughing wantonly in the distance, and snorted coldly, "I'm afraid they haven't been beaten badly..."
"Take people there and teach them a lesson. Then tell Liu Heng to ask his spies to bring some invincible mine cannons and plant them along the way."
"Since they like to wander around us, let them follow us well."
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When the leader of the patrolling horse guards heard this, he chuckled and said, "They are challenging you, young master, and they have obviously found the wrong person. I will take them out now and teach them how to behave."
"Go back quickly..."
The leader of the horse guards took the order and led a hundred men of the horse guards. They rode horses and carried muskets. They left the team and rushed out in hot pursuit of the Xixia cavalry.
For a while.
There was a loud sound of gunfire.
Until evening.
The men of the horse patrol drove some horses and returned to the team with smiles on their faces.
The horse was apparently captured.
The Xixia knights on horseback became the dead souls of their guns.
On the second day.
The men on patrol wanted to go out, but were stopped by Kou Ji.
Xixia Youqi suffered a loss and became more cautious, widening the distance between the two parties.
Then, they followed Kou Ji and his party as usual.
"Bang..."
Explosions were heard frequently as they marched.
Followed until the evening of the second day.
Xixia Youqi couldn't keep up.
The invincible mine cannon planted by Liu Heng's men did not have any rules.
Therefore, no matter how the Xixia Rangers change their paths, as long as they get close to Kou Ji and his team, they will step on the invincible mine cannon.
The Xixia Rangers suffered heavy losses from the invincible mines and cannons, and in the end they did not dare to approach Kou Ji and his team.
Outside Shazhou City.
Xixia military camp.
In the Chinese military tent.
Li Yuanhao's face was so gloomy that he could bleed.
In front of him, the Xixia general knelt on the ground.
Li Yuanhao stared at one of the round-hatted generals and gritted his teeth and said: "Ye Li Yu Qi, I will give you three thousand rangers to find out the true and false of Kou Ji. Not only did you fail to find out the true and false of Kou Ji, but you also lost money."
I have a thousand warriors.
Until now, you still can't explain clearly what Kou Ji is and what is true, so what do I need from you?"
Yeli Yuqi gritted his teeth and lowered his head in guilt.
Li Yuanhao had a ferocious look on his face several times, and he wanted to draw his sword several times, but in the end he failed to draw the sword.
He has a very violent temper, and if any of the civil and military ministers who serve under him fail to do things as they wish, he will immediately execute them.
But Yeli Yuqi is no ordinary minister.
He is from Noribe.
The Yeli tribe is one of the few large tribes in Xixia.
It is one of the big forces that their father and son need to win over.
Yeli Yuqi and his brother Yeli Wangrong are the masters of the entire Yeli tribe.
The warriors of the Yeli tribe led by the two brothers helped Xixia to make great achievements.
Li Deming relied heavily on his two brothers.
To this end, he won over Noribe, and in order to win over the two brothers, he also asked him to marry the two brothers' sister, Noribe, as the crown prince.
It can be said that brothers Yeli Yuqi and his brother Yeli Wangrong are also his elders now.
If he follows his temper and kills wild beggars, he will cause a lot of trouble.
The ten thousand warriors of the Yeli tribe in the servant army he led this time would not agree.
Xixia is very different from Song Dynasty.
Even though Xixia has now established a country, and each tribe has chosen to surrender to the feet of their father and son, each tribe still retains a certain degree of autonomy.
The warriors of the Yeli tribe only recognize Yeli Wangrong, and the Yeli Yuqi brothers only listen to their orders and sacrifice their lives for them.
If Li Yuanhao dared to take the life of one of their brothers, the warriors of the Yeli tribe would dare to cause trouble and rebel.
Li Yuanhao suppressed the anger in his heart and said to Ye Liyuqiu: "Get down quickly and find out what Kou Ji is and what he is."
Ye Li Yuqi hesitated for a long time and said in a difficult tone: "Your Highness, it's not that my subordinates are unwilling to find out the truth about Kou Ji, but that fellow Kou Ji's methods are too weird.
You already know that he has a fine cavalry in his hand.
The elite riders under him control a special kind of firearm.
That kind of firearm is more lethal than a crossbow.
The rangers sent out by their subordinates faced them and had no choice but to run for their lives.
In addition, Kou Jinasi also controls a firearm that can explode from the ground.
Buried underground, no trace can be found.
Once our ranger collides with it, it will burst out from the ground and its lethality is also very powerful.
It should also be a kind of firearm, containing rusty scraps of iron.
After our warriors were scratched, they had to cut out the flesh, otherwise they would not survive at all.
Once a horse is hit, it will surely die.
Now the rangers in the hands of my subordinates are all afraid of the unpredictable firearms and are not willing to approach Koji's fellow at all."
Li Yuanhao stared and was about to roar.
At this moment, a Xixia soldier quickly rushed into the tent and reported hurriedly: "Your Highness, a large number of soldiers and horses were dispatched from Shazhou City to break away from our army's encirclement."
"Damn!!"
Li Yuanhao cursed angrily.
Without the help of Huangtou Huihe's 140,000 elite soldiers.
His tens of thousands of soldiers and horses besieged Shazhou City, but they seemed a little weak.
He led his men to attack Shazhou City several times, but was repelled by the Song soldiers in Shazhou City.
While repelling him, the Song soldiers also discovered that Huangtou Huihe's troops had left, so the Song soldiers in the city began to try to break out.
The continuous breakout day and night made him exhausted.
But at this moment, a more difficult to deal with Kou Ji appeared again.
Li Yuanhao glared at Ye Li Yuqi and said angrily: "You lead people to block back the Song soldiers who rushed out of the city. I will personally lead people to meet Kou Ji for a while. I don't believe it, Kou Ji has three heads and six arms!"