After listening to what Kou Ji said, Li Di understood what Kou Ji was thinking.
He was very satisfied with the way Kou Ji handled it.
He was also afraid that Kou Ji was young and wouldn't know how to deal with such matters, so he was ready to help.
Seeing that Kou Ji handled the matter very properly, he didn't need to speak anymore.
Ji Yan heard Kou Ji's words and gritted her teeth slightly unwillingly.
If the clan members are separated, it will be difficult to get back together in the future.
A few years later, I am afraid not many people will remember the existence of Ganzhou Uighurs.
However.
Even though Ji Yan was unwilling, he had to succumb to Kou Ji's majesty.
The scene of the Song army killing 30,000 Xixia prisoners outside Xiliang City yesterday is still vivid in my mind.
He had no doubt that after he violated Kou Ji's wishes, Kou Ji would trap and kill them.
After all, Kou Ji was not merciful at all when he was targeting the Shazhou Uighurs.
I won't be merciful to them.
"Everything is based on the orders of Imperial Commissioner Kou..."
Ji Yan lowered her head with great appreciation and replied respectfully.
Kou Ji nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then go down and prepare."
"Li Zhaoliang, go help a group of Jiyan clan leaders."
"Here..."
Li Zhaoliang took Ji Yan out of the hall.
The only three people left in the hall were Kou Ji, Jiao Siluo, Li Di and Zhong Shiheng.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "I'm afraid it will take some time for Zhu Neng to count the belongings clearly, and we can't just sit here. How about someone prepare some food and wine, and we can have a chat."
Jiao Siluo smiled and nodded: "That's very good..."
Li Di and Zhong Shiheng also nodded.
Kou Ji sent someone to prepare a table of food and wine.
Four people were sitting in the hall, eating, drinking, and talking and laughing.
All four of them are good talkers, so they don't have to worry about running out of topics to talk about.
From the ancient and modern Chinese history, we talked about the ancient and modern history of the Western Regions.
From the history of the Western Regions in ancient and modern times, we also talked about weapons and armaments.
Li Di and Zhong Shiheng were both knowledgeable in astronomy, geography, medicine, divination, and astrology, etc.
Jiao Siluo is the master of the first section, and he is very familiar with the history, humanities and features of the Western Regions.
All three are outstanding figures in the world.
So I’m very involved in broadcasting.
Of course, Kou Ji is not weaker than them either.
Koji didn't tell them much else, he just told them about Baghdad, the Wisdom Museum, and the city suspended in the air.
It's enough to make them fascinated.
The three of them looked at Kou Ji with eyes filled with passion, and they wished they could talk to Kou Ji all night long.
For Koji, Baghdad, the Wisdom Hall, and the Sky City are nothing.
But for Li Di and the others, it was very new.
After nightfall.
When Kou Ji showed a tired look, Li Di still pulled Kou Ji's sleeves excitedly and asked: "In the far west, there really is a city built in the sky, and there are really endless fruit trees. How can I drink?"
Finished sweet milk?”
Kou Ji glanced at the very excited Li Di and the others, took four chopsticks, held up a disk, pointed at the disk and said: "Build a city on it, a city in the sky..."
Zhong Shiheng said in astonishment: "How many and long pillars are there to support the city in the air? Can it be completed by manpower?"
Jiao Siluo said somewhat uncertainly: "Are there really gods and Buddhas in the world?"
Li Di said with some uncertainty: "I'm silent..."
Kou Ji interrupted Li Di's words and said calmly: "The Great Wall left by the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Chidao left by the Qin and Han Dynasties, in the eyes of many people, are also miracles that cannot be completed by human power. They have not yet appeared in front of you alive.
Already?
The thousands of grottoes and stone Buddhas ten feet high in the Thousand Buddha Cave are also difficult to complete with human power in the eyes of distant Westerners, so don't they appear in front of everyone easily?"
"How can the pillars that hold up the city in the sky be completed by human power?"
Jiao Siluo hesitated and said with some uncertainty.
Kou Ji said calmly: "Dig a hole in the ground, put one end of the stone pillar in it, and then use a noose to tie it into hundreds of knots, and then it can be erected."
Zhong Shiheng exclaimed: "The manpower and material resources consumed are probably unimaginable."
Li Di commented: "If there is such a city in the far west, the person who built the city must be a tyrant comparable to the First Emperor."
Kou Ji covered his mouth and yawned, but said nothing.
He regretted it a little.
I regret talking about this topic.
He forgot that people are always full of curiosity about new affairs.
It also underestimated the curiosity of Li Di and the others.
"Corps, what's going on with the endless fruits picked in the sky city and the endless sweet milk?"
Jiao Siluo asked the question very seriously.
Kou Jidao: "Dig a circular ditch and send people to continuously pour honey and sweet milk into it at one end. People in other places will naturally have endless amounts of sweet milk to drink.
As for the fruit trees that can’t be finished picking…someone is picking them on one side and hanging them on the other side, isn’t it just that they can’t finish picking them all?”
Hearing this, Li Di said angrily: "How could the people not see through such a waste of money and waste of people, and how could they regard it as a miracle?"
When Kou Ji heard this, he glanced at Li Di and said in a nonchalant manner: "In the past, in the Daqing Hall, there were immortals who called upon the wind and rain to summon the goddess to come. Didn't some people believe it?"
Hearing this, Li Di gritted his teeth, snorted coldly, and said no more.
He already understood what the so-called city in the sky was, and what the miracles of endless fruit and endless milk were all about.
It's just a group of high-ranking people who fooled the people through the deeds of the gods and Buddhas.
Thinking about it, he felt sick.
Kou Ji described a fairyland-like city to Li Di and the others, and then pierced it with his own hands, placing the flying dog Gou in front of Li Di and the others. Li Di and the others immediately lost interest in the aerial city.
No one stopped talking to Kou Ji.
They stood up and left separately.
After sending Li Di and the others away, Kou Ji was led by the guards in the city lord's palace to a bedroom to rest.
Kou Ji had everything going smoothly and slept very deeply.
Li Yuanhao couldn't sleep by the Hongshui River.
By the gurgling river.
A tent was pitched.
There were countless figures moving around inside and outside the tent, but few people made a sound.
The Xixia soldiers and horses who used to enjoy wrestling and amusing themselves in their free time were now sitting outside the tent with sad expressions on their faces, looking at the direction of Xiliang City.
The swaying torch seemed to become a little darker according to their mood.
There was a sense of sadness and desolation inside and outside the Xixia military camp.
Inside the Chinese military tent.
Li Yuanhao sat on the couch listlessly, his eyes bloodshot, staring blankly outside the tent.
On the table in front of him was a very rough wooden box, which contained a human head.
The person's head was covered in blood and looked very scary.
In front of the table.
Yeli Yuqi no longer had the calmness of the past. He slumped on the ground, staring at the box in front of Li Yuanhao with disheveled hair, his red eyes twitching in a low voice.
The other Xixia generals in the tent all had their heads hanging down, looking sad.
This battle in Hexi.
It can be said that Xixia returned in disastrous defeat.
Not only did they fail to capture Hexi, they also lost the seized gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep, and horses in Hexi.
In addition, two Xixia elite soldiers and horses were also damaged.
Xixia currently does not have many elite troops.
Every time one is broken, it is a huge loss for Xixia.
previous years.
Song and Liao attacked Xia together, and Xixia paid a heavy price in order to resist powerful enemies on both sides.
Not only did they lose the richest territory in Xixia, they also lost nearly 60% of their elite troops.
After that battle, Xixia only had four elite troops left.
The iron kite, the army that slays the enemy, the army that captures the living, the army with strong crossbows.
The Iron Kites, the Difficult Army, and the Powerful Crossbow Army are permanent troops.
The Army of Capturing Life is not permanent and is only a prototype at present.
Even so, it is already several times more powerful than other Xixia troops.
This battle in Hexi.
Iron Harrier was beaten and disabled, leaving less than a few hundred people.
The 50,000 soldiers who captured the lives were slaughtered, and not a single one was left. (Historical data records that the soldiers who captured the lives numbered 100,000. They were all well-equipped warriors who mainly captured prisoners. But that was after the founding of Xixia.
There is a difference of more than ten years from the current time in the book, so the number here is 50,000.)
Kou Ji left two for Xixia, but the moment Li Yuanhao saw Ye Li Wangrong's head, he was so angry that he killed the two that Kou Ji left behind.
Half of the four elite troops of Xixia were lost in Hexi.
It can be said that it was a heavy loss.
I'm afraid it will take Xixia a long, long time to recover.
Kou Ji's ruthlessness exceeded Li Yuanhao's imagination.
Li Yuanhao originally thought that he was the cruelest person in the world.
But when he learned that Kou Ji ordered people to trap and kill 30,000 Xixia soldiers without blinking an eye, he realized that Kou Ji was more ruthless than him.
He only killed a few thousand Song troops in Suzhou, but Kou Ji slaughtered 30,000 Xixia troops.
He regrets it now.
I regret that I was so cruel to Suzhou.
If he hadn't been ruthless, maybe the thirty thousand Xixia troops who surrendered would not have died.
Just when Li Yuanhao fell into regret and couldn't extricate himself.
A tall middle-aged man led several people into the Chinese army's tent.
Li Yuanhao felt the movement and roared without hesitation: "Who?! Who dares to disobey my military order and break into the Chinese army's tent without permission? Are you tired of living?"
"Swish, swish, swish..."
The Xixia generals in the Chinese army's tent almost did not hesitate to draw the sabers from their waists.
But after seeing the face of the visitor, he decisively put away his sword and knelt on the ground.
Li Yuanhao stared for a long time in the dim light before he could clearly see the face of the person coming.
"Father...Father?!"
Li Yuanhao screamed in surprise.
Li Deming had already walked up to Li Yuanhao with a gloomy face.
As soon as Li Yuanhao stood up, Li Deming raised his hand and slapped Li Yuanhao hard.
The beating made Li Yuanhao fall down on his seat.
Li Yuanhao stared at Li Deming in shock.
Li Deming was not angry but snorted coldly: "Look what you look like now. You just suffered a defeat and you have become so depressed."
Li Yuanhao hurriedly got up from his seat and exclaimed: "Why did your father come back here?"
Li Deming snorted and said, "If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have seen my son being so worthless."
"Father, the Iron Harrier is gone, and so is the Army of Capturing Life. The hateful Song Dynasty people slaughtered all the Army of Capturing Life."
Li Yuanhao moved closer to Li Deming and said in a trembling voice.
Li Deming stared, "So what?"
Li Yuanhao looked at Li Deming in astonishment.
Li Deming glanced at Li Yuanhao and said coldly: "In war, it is normal to win and lose. You cannot only allow yourself to win and not allow others to win. There are not many victorious generals in the world, and there is no undefeated dynasty in the world.
Therefore, it is not terrible to lose, and it is not terrible to pay a huge price.
The terrible thing is that I lost my fighting spirit.
How can you win back if you have no fighting spirit?
What if the iron kite is gone?
What if the capture army is gone?
When your grandfather started the army, he only had a few thousand men under his command.
If he was like you and had no fighting spirit, he would have been eaten alive by the people of Song Dynasty.
With his tenacious fighting spirit, he led thousands of people to charge in the northwest. After several defeats, he persevered and finally defeated all the enemies in the northwest in consecutive battles. He dominated the northwest and laid the foundation for us in Xixia.
Therefore, it is not terrible to suffer defeat.
As long as we have the will to fight, one day we will stand up again.
Send troops south to take back all the humiliation we have suffered today."
Li Yuanhao gritted his teeth, suppressed his blush, and said in a deep voice: "My child understands..."
Li Deming stared at Li Yuanhao and continued: "I will not let you lead the army again until you regain your fighting spirit."
Li Yuanhao nodded heavily.
Seeing this, Li Deming's expression softened a bit and said: "In the next few days, you will learn from Mr. Xia. Learn how to become a Song person, how to scheming with Song people, and how to defeat Song people."
"Mr. Xia?"
Li Yuanhao looked at Li Deming with some confusion.
Li Deming's eyes fell on a figure not far behind him and said with a smile: "Mr. Xia, I will leave the baby to you from now on."
The man who was called Mr. Xia slowly walked up to Li Yuanhao, and bowed his hand to Li Deming in a neither humble nor condescending manner, "I have no obligation to refuse..."
Li Yuanhao's eyes widened in shock, "Xia Song?!"
The person Li Deming called Mr. Xia was Xia Song, who defected from the Song Dynasty.
Li Yuanhao is very familiar with Xia Song.
Xia Song used to serve as a defense envoy in the northwest and had frequent dealings with Xixia.
A basket full of documents about Xia Song from Xixia.
Xia Song said calmly to Li Yuanhao: "My name is Xia Yuan now, you can call me sir."
Li Yuanhao said angrily: "As a Song Dynasty person, what qualifications do you have to be my husband? What I hate most in my life are Song people."
Li Deming became angry when he heard this, stared at Li Yuanhao and roared: "Don't be rude to Mr. Xia!"
Xia Song waved his hand and said calmly: "Master Li, you don't have to be like this. How about you let me say a few words to His Highness the Crown Prince?"
Li Deming glared at Li Yuanhao fiercely and said nothing.
Li Yuanhao gritted his teeth and glared at Xia Song.
Xia Song stared at Li Yuanhao and said calmly: "Do you know why you lost?"