Chapter 0818 When I Di Qing sits in Yangguan, it's paper?
In Jiao Siluo's view, Qingtang has half a million string masters, who can compete with the Song Dynasty.
The 500,000 string-controllers in Qingtang are not the Black Khan soldiers of the Black Khan Dynasty who cannot fight without being on horseback.
Qingtang's 500,000 string-controllers are truly elite soldiers.
Each one is carefully selected.
On and off horse, they are all elite soldiers.
In addition, through the technical support of the Song Dynasty, Qingtang also forged a number of very sophisticated soldiers and armors.
When elite soldiers are equipped with sophisticated armor, their combat effectiveness will increase exponentially.
Jiao Siluo felt that in terms of individual combat capabilities, Qingtang's string control men were definitely not weaker than the Song Dynasty's imperial army.
Now, the biggest gap between the two armies is firearms.
"Without the help of firearms, we will suffer heavy losses against the Song Dynasty's imperial army."
After Jiao Siluo laughed, he pondered.
When An Ziluo mentioned firearms, the smile on Mr. Wan's face gradually faded.
Mr. Wan said solemnly: "In recent years, we have secretly obtained a lot of firearms from the Song Dynasty, and sent craftsmen to take them apart and imitate them. However, the firearms we forged have always been somewhat different from the firearms of the Song Dynasty.
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An Ziluo frowned and said, "The ones we imitated are not firearms."
When Jiao Siluo and Mr. Wan heard this, they both sighed.
After Qingtang obtained the firearms of the Song Dynasty, he spent a huge price to imitate them.
It can only imitate the shape of firearms, but it cannot imitate the spirit of firearms.
The firearms they imitated were useless and exploded as soon as they were used.
Firearms of the Song Dynasty rarely exploded unless something went wrong after being used for a long time.
Mr. Wan pondered for a moment and said: "Perhaps when Kou Ji created the firearm, he knew that the firearm was a weapon of war, so he arranged many means in advance to prevent counterfeiting.
If we want to truly create firearms, I am afraid we need to obtain real firearms forging skills from the Song people."
Jiao Siluo said in a deep voice: "Let's put aside the matter of making firearms for the time being. We will make firearms again after we have the opportunity to obtain real firearms forging skills from the Song people.
Without the help of firearms, if our Qingtang soldiers faced the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, we would certainly suffer heavy losses.
But if you want to carve out flesh from the Song Dynasty, there is no reason not to pay the price."
Mr. Wan nodded and said: "With Black Khan, the Liao Kingdom restrained the Song Dynasty. Even if we have to pay a price, it will not be too high."
Jiao Siluo nodded and sighed: "If Hei Khan and the Liao Kingdom hadn't worked together to contain the Song Dynasty, I wouldn't have dared to take action against the Song Dynasty."
Hei Khan didn't understand how powerful the Song Dynasty was, and the Liao Kingdom also had a partial understanding.
Qingtang knew it clearly.
After the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were equipped with firearms, it is not an exaggeration to call them the strongest among all countries.
If the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom had not attacked the Song Dynasty together, forming a force of attack from the east and the west, Jiao Siluo would have suppressed the ambition in his heart and become an obedient citizen of Zhao Guan's family.
"After Kou Ji left, the whole country prepared for war."
After Jiao Siluo sighed, he said in a heavy voice: "If we win this battle, I will let Qingtang take control of the world. If we lose this battle, General An will take my eldest son to the west to go to the Black Khan Dynasty.
Conquer the city and seize the land, and create another foundation for our Qingtang.
I will live and die with Qingtang City."
An Ziluo bowed to the boy with a solemn expression.
While Jiao Siluo, Mr. Wan, and An Ziluo were having a secret discussion, Kou Ji had already been led by Qingtang's chamberlain to the residence arranged for him by Jiao Siluo.
A dome-shaped dormitory, which was very clean and empty.
After Kou Ji arrived, all the guards at the door of the dormitory evacuated.
Koji's men took over the guards of the palace.
Kou Ji stepped into the bedroom, found the bed, and lay down on it.
After staring at the circular dome for a while, a smile appeared on Kou Ji's lips, "Jiao Siluo made a good plan..."
Kou Ji only said half a sentence, then stopped talking, lay on the bed and slowly fell asleep.
I slept until dawn.
Kou Ji took his people to the palace where Jiao Siluo was staying and said goodbye to Jiao Siluo.
The purpose of this trip has been achieved.
Kou Ji was too lazy to continue his arrogance with Jiao Siluo.
Jiao Siluo probably didn't want him to stay in Qingtang City any longer.
So Kou Ji didn't want to stay and make people uncomfortable.
Jiao Siluo knew that Kou Ji was leaving, so he pulled Kou Ji and said a lot of polite words, and then sent a team of soldiers to escort Kou Ji out of Qingtang.
Kou Ji left Qingtang and rushed all the way to Hexi.
On Koji's way to Hexi.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu and Xiao Pingli were leading heavy troops to attack Guazhou.
Several days.
The Black Khan King Yusufu sent Black Khan soldiers to launch several wars across the river, but all ended in failure.
Under the cover of artillery and muskets, it was difficult for the Black Khan soldiers to rush to the other side of the river.
Even if you try your best to reach the other side of the river, you will still be blown away by the minefields on the other side and run away in confusion.
After spending several days, they could not cross the river. The cattle and sheep driven by the army officers and soldiers were almost exhausted. Finally, the Black Khan King Yu Sufu could not calmly deal with the war in Guazhou.
The tent of King Black Khan.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu had a gloomy face and was thinking about a way to cross the river.
After Xiao Pidi informed him, he stepped into King Black Khan's tent.
I saw the Black Khan King Yu Sufu sitting there with a gloomy look on his face.
Xiao Pidi saluted and said: "Is King Khan worried about crossing the river?"
Black Khan Wang Yusufu glanced at Xiao Pidi and said, "You know what you are asking..."
The tone of Black Khan Wang Yusufu was a little unfriendly.
Xiao Pidi didn't pay attention.
Xiao Pi said to the Black Khan King Yu Sufu: "How about we send out another army and go around from the north of Guazhou."
"no!"
Black Khan Wang Yusufu refused without even thinking.
To the north of Guazhou is a vast desert that stretches as far as the eye can see.
The Black Khan King Yusufu knew how big that desert was.
Let alone sending out a troop of troops, even if he brought all the troops there, they would only be able to fill a corner of the desert.
If the cavalry gets lost when entering it, 90% of the time they will be killed in the desert.
When Xiao Pidi saw that the Black Khan King Yusufu decisively rejected his proposal, he knew that the Black Khan King Yusufu would never let his troops go into danger in the desert.
Xiao Pidi pondered for a moment and said: "But if King Khan does not divide his troops, the soldiers in the army may have nothing to eat."
Black Khan Wang Yusufu frowned.
How could he not see things that Xiao Pidi could see?
Not only did he know that the soldiers in the army were running out of food, he also knew what would happen to the soldiers in the army if they had nothing to eat.
But even so, the Black Khan King Yusufu was still unwilling to let his soldiers take risks in the desert.
"Then attack Guazhou at all costs."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu said this in a heavy voice. He stared straight at Xiao Pidi and said, "Didn't you say that the people of Song Dynasty are very rich and they have endless food in their hands?"
"Whatever it takes?"
Xiao Pidi raised his eyebrows.
King Yusufu of the Black Khan asked: "Can I cross the river if I do it at all costs?"
Xiao Pidi said in a deep voice: "If King Khan can do it at all costs, the foreign ministers will have a way to cross the river."
King Black Khan stared at Xiao Pidi and said in a deep voice: "Say!"
Xiao Pidi gritted his teeth and said: "Push hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses up together and cross the river from various places. The number of soldiers and horses under our command is far more than ten times larger than the number of soldiers and horses of the Song Army.
If we cross the river together, the Song army will naturally not be able to stop them."
The number of Zhenxi troops is limited.
If the Black Khan soldiers only crossed the river from one place, they would naturally be able to stop them.
But if the Black Khan soldiers crossed the river from all over the place in a swarm, the Zhenxi Army could only stop a small part of them.
"Then press all the soldiers and horses up together!"
Black Khan King Yusufu said decisively.
In fact, the Black Khan King Yu Sufu also thought about pressing all the soldiers and horses up together.
The reason why he did not push all the soldiers and horses forward was because he was worried that Song soldiers would have ambushes elsewhere on the other side.
After all, there are only ten thousand Song soldiers currently staring at their Black Khan soldiers on the other side of the river.
There are still 40,000 Song soldiers who have not shown their faces from beginning to end.
When the cavalry was crossing the river, it was easy to become a target.
There are very sharp firearms on the opposite side. Once spread out on the other side of the river, a net will be formed.
There is no difference between the cavalry and the enemy facing death.
The reason why the Black Khan King Yu Sufu focused on one place to attack was to chew it to pieces with a very small force.
Then send the army to quickly cross the river along this point.
However, at this point, he couldn't tear this area open no matter how hard he tried, so he had to send all his troops and horses to press it together.
The order of the Black Khan King Yusufu was quickly conveyed to the ears of all the Black Khan soldiers.
Hundreds of thousands of Black Khan soldiers pressed together to the river.
Across the river.
Zhong Shiheng stood on a high ground and saw hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses pressing forward. He grinned, "After struggling for so long, we finally have to take this step."
"Send the order and tell the officers and soldiers of the Zhenxi Army in other places to be on alert and prepare to respond to the enemy."
"..."
As Zhong Shiheng's order was conveyed, the officers and soldiers of the Zhenxi Army who were hiding two or three miles away on the river bank, as well as the local soldiers in Hexi, quietly reached the bank.
More than 60,000 soldiers quietly reached the river bank without showing their heads. They waited quietly for the Black Khan soldiers to cross the river.
"Woooooooo..."
A heavy horn sounded.
Hundreds of thousands of Black Khan soldiers were divided into hundreds of groups and crossed the river from hundreds of places on the river.
The sound of gunfire rang out quickly as the Black Khan soldiers crossed the river.
The Black Khan soldiers who crossed the river along the original route were severely beaten by the Zhenxi Army.
The Black Khan soldiers who crossed the river elsewhere did not encounter any damage from gunfire.
We are halfway across the river.
Suddenly, densely packed Song soldiers appeared from the opposite bank of the river.
They suddenly appeared on the bank of the river, startling the Black Khan soldiers crossing the river.
"Hehehe...I've been waiting for you for a long time..."
"Fuck guy..."
"..."
The Zhenxi Army has a limited number of muskets and artillery, and not every soldier has one.
The local soldiers who came to assist in the battle had never even touched firearms.
But this did not prevent them from preventing the Black Khan soldiers from crossing the river.
Crossbows, bed crossbows, heavy crossbows, catapults, hundreds of tigers galloping together, fire crossbows, meteor arrows and other equipment were all moved to the river bank in one breath.
"Dong dong dong..."
With the beating of war drums.
Arrows, crossbows, boulders, and arrows with fire tails were densely shot at the Black Khan soldiers on the river.
The Black Khan soldiers fell into the water like dumplings.
Blood flowers bloom in the water.
The river water gradually became dyed red.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu was shot dead in the water by the Song army as soon as he saw nearly 10,000 Black Khan soldiers. He subconsciously clenched his fists.
"I just knew...I just knew..."
He muttered a few words through gritted teeth.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu roared: "Retreat!"
Xiao Pidi's face changed when he heard this, "King Khan, although the enemy's arrows are dense, as long as we bear the pressure, we will definitely be able to rush over. Our strength far exceeds that of the enemy.
The enemy can’t be killed all.”
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu stared and shouted: "They are not your soldiers, don't you feel bad!"
Xiao Pidi opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu realized that he had lost his composure, took a deep breath and said: "All the soldiers and horses under my command are cavalry. Facing the dense arrow formation of the Song soldiers, they cannot resist at all.
I remember that you have a shield soldier in your hand, and when you charge for the second time, let them take the lead."
After Xiao Pidi heard what the Black Khan King Yusufu said, he finally understood why the Black Khan King Yusufu decisively ordered the retreat after seeing the Song soldiers ambushing the opposite side.
This is because he was thinking about the shield soldiers he brought.
To be precise, they are forcing him to do something.
Xiao Pidi frowned and did not speak.
The shield soldiers he brought were not just shield soldiers, they were also a group of craftsmen.
The purpose of their existence is to forge siege equipment.
The Song and Liao countries fought fiercely for many years.
Xiao Pidi knew very well that the Song Dynasty's soldiers and horses were best at defensive warfare.
If there were no craftsmen to forge siege equipment, they would be intimidated by the heavily guarded city by Song soldiers.
You can't expect a bunch of cavalry to attack the city on horseback, right?
"King Khan, the shield soldiers under the foreign ministers are of great use!"
Xiao Pidi said in a deep voice.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu snorted coldly and said: "If you can't cross the river, even if your shield soldiers are of great use, what's the use?"
Xiao Pidi was speechless due to the rebuke.
After a long time, Xiao Pidi confessed, "The Song army is best at defending the city, and the shield soldiers under the foreign ministers are the craftsmen who forge siege equipment."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu frowned and said: "Artisan? Isn't it because you are unwilling to send troops and deliberately said the words of refusal?"
Xiao Pidi said in a deep voice: "King Khan can verify one or two of them."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu felt that Xiao Pidi was not telling lies, so he immediately thought for a moment and said, "Then let them hand over their shields and give them to the soldiers and horses under this Khan."
Xiao Pidi nodded decisively and agreed to the matter.
Immediately.
The Black Khan soldiers retreated to the river bank, and the Song soldiers on the other side of the river also stopped attacking.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu ordered Xiao Pidi to collect the shields from the Liao soldiers and distribute them to the Black Khan soldiers under his command.
Then he ordered the Black Khan soldiers holding shields to go in front, and the other Black Khan soldiers to follow behind, and continue to cross the river.
To cross the river once.
The Black Khan King Yusufu personally led the 700 Mamu guest under his tent to supervise the battle.
The Black Khan soldiers began to cross the river again.
The Black Khan soldiers who rushed at the front were protected by shields and could barely withstand the dense arrows of the Song soldiers on the other side of the river.
Seeing this, Zhong Shiheng ordered all catapults to start throwing grenades bundled together.
After a series of dense grenade beams were thrown into the river.
Fountains rose up in the river.
The water sprayed from the fountain was also filled with the corpses of the Black Khan soldiers.
The Black Khan King Yusufu was determined to cross the river, so he turned a deaf ear to the casualties.
He stared closely at the black soldiers crossing the river from various places holding their shields.
With the help of shields, Black Khan soldiers do not need to fear the threat of arrows.
Except for the place where the artillery and muskets are displayed, only catapults, heavy crossbows and bed crossbows can threaten the lives of the Black Khan soldiers holding shields.
When the first Black Khan soldier stepped onto the other side of the river with his shield in hand.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu and Zhong Shiheng were very worried.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu shouted almost without hesitation: "Everyone cross the river at full speed and let me defeat the Song army!"
The Black Khan soldiers surged towards the other side of the river even more violently.
Zhong Shiheng looked at the black soldiers crossing the river and sighed slightly, "The difference in strength is too big, and there are not enough mines and cannons. It is impossible to cover all the river banks with mines and cannons.
Otherwise, this Lehe River would be the burial place of all the Black Khan soldiers."
"Leave 5,000 local troops and then retreat while the others retreat."
Zhong Shiheng once again ordered the troops to withdraw.
After the Black Khan soldiers crossed the river, organized themselves together, and formed a cavalry charge formation.
Zhong Shiheng had already retreated to the mountain with his troops.
The Black Khan soldiers faced only five thousand local soldiers who were left behind.
The local soldiers did not compete head-on with the Black Khan soldiers.
After the Black Khan soldiers formally formed a formation, they began to flee in all directions.
The task Zhong Shiheng gave them was simple.
That is to delay the enemy's march as much as possible, and then ensure that you stay alive.
"Chase!"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu was carried across the river. Looking at the Song soldiers fleeing in all directions, he gave a vicious order.
During this crossing of the river, the Black Khan dynasty lost almost as many troops as they did in the battle at the Shazhou border.
However, the losses suffered by the Song soldiers were almost negligible compared to the battle at the Shazhou border.
Just when the Black Khan King Yusufu sent troops to chase the local soldiers who were fleeing in all directions.
Zhong Shiheng has retreated to the mountains outside Guazhou City.
In the mountains, Zhong Shiheng prepared another battlefield to block the enemy.
The number of soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty was too large, and Zhong Shiheng could not lead his troops to confront them head-on, so he resorted to skinning them layer by layer to weaken the strength of the Black Khan Dynasty.
Zhong Shiheng not only prepared a battlefield to block the enemy in the mountains, but also set up a battlefield to block the enemy in Guazhou City.
In addition, the forest outside Guazhou City that was chopped down by Li Di was also one of the battlefields set up by Zhong Shiheng.
Weakened one by one.
Zhong Shiheng was confident that when the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty arrived at Yumen Pass, they would be weakened to 600,000.
Just when the war on Zhong Shiheng's side had just ended.
The war in Yangguan broke out.
The Black Khan King Yusufu and Xiao fought against the dispatched cavalry and drove all the way to Yangguan.
Then he rushed into a huge pocket formation very bravely.
By the time they reacted, nearly 110,000 soldiers and horses had already surrounded them.
Di Qing wore a mask and sat astride a horse, staring at the Black Khan soldiers and Liao soldiers in the encirclement, and whispered: "Do you look down on me? You didn't even try to cover up, and you just rushed towards Yangguan?"
When the Yangguan I sit in is made of paper?"
As early as when the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Allied Forces arrived at the border of Shazhou, Di Qing received the military order to rush to Hexi.
The Yongxing Army he led was stationed in Xining Prefecture, and it only took three days to reach Yangguan all the way through the starry night.
So when the coalition forces of the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom appeared on the border of Guazhou, he had already arrived at Yangguan.
The reason why Zhong Shiheng ignored the soldiers and horses sent by the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom was because he knew that with Di Qing sitting in charge of Yangguan, the soldiers and horses sent by the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom could not break Yangguan at all.
Shortly after Di Qing led the Yongxing Army to Yangguan, local soldiers from Shaanxi Prefecture and Xiping Prefecture also arrived at Yangguan one after another.
When Di Qing learned about Zhong Shiheng's message and learned that a group of 60,000 Black Khan soldiers and Liao soldiers were coming to attack Yangguan, he made some preparations to fight with the Black Khan soldiers and Liao soldiers.
Have a good fight in Yangguan.
But after he sent out scouts and carefully investigated the movement of the Black Khan and Liao soldiers, he found that the other party didn't seem to pay him any attention at all.
The opponent drove straight in and rushed towards Yangguan without any cover-up.
Di Qing conveniently made a pocket array at the entrance of Yangguan Gate.
Then, the enemy soldiers rushed into the pocket formation without hesitation.
A war with more than 100,000 troops ended before it even started.
After Di Qing stared at the enemy soldiers in the encirclement for a long time, he ordered in a deep voice, "Those who are willing to surrender, have their two little toes cut off and become slave soldiers. Those who are unwilling to surrender, be killed."
Cutting off toes is a method of controlling prisoners that Di Qing learned when he was in Dali.
Cutting off two little toes and burning them with fire basically eliminated the possibility of the prisoners joining together to escape.
Following Di Qing's order.
Nearly 110,000 troops pressed forward.
Most of the Black Khan soldiers and Liao soldiers surrendered decisively, and only a few die-hard elements who did not know whether to live or die chose to fight to the end.
In the end, their corpses became fertilizer for all the flowers, plants and trees in front of Yangguan.
Amid the cheers of the soldiers, Di Qing escorted 50,000 prisoners and slowly entered Yangguan.
Just as Di Qing was escorting the prisoners into Yang Pass, Kou Ji also rode into Yang Pass.
One of them entered from the east gate, and the other entered from the west gate.
We didn't meet until we got to the pass.
Di Qing was happy and excited when he saw Kou Ji. He jumped off his horse, took off the mask on his face in full view of the crowd, and ran to Kou Ji's horse in two steps at a time.
"Brother!"
Kou Ji looked at Di Qing with a smile and said, "We haven't seen each other for several years, right?"
Di Qing nodded solemnly.
Kou Ji smiled and said, "You have grown up a lot."
Di Qing still nodded solemnly.
Kou Ji laughed and said, "Don't be so formal. I'm not Cao Baochen. You don't need to work hard to maintain that steady and mature face in front of me."
Di Qing suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and smiled brightly.
Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "That's right. You are not thirty yet, so you shouldn't live like a little old man."
Speaking of this, Kou Ji looked at the huge team of prisoners behind Di Qing and said with some surprise: "The battle was won?"