Kou Ji continued to smile and said: "The Song Dynasty has always been friendly towards the Yuanshan tribe. However, Qingtang has always been full of hostility towards the Yuanshan tribe. So Yuanshan knows who to help."
Li Di pondered: "If the soldiers and horses of the Yuanshan tribe, together with the Qingtang soldiers and horses, attack our Song Dynasty, they switch sides in the middle of the battle and give Qingtang a fatal blow. It will cause huge damage to Qingtang."
Once Qingtang is severely damaged, we, the Song Dynasty, will be able to repel the Qingtang soldiers and horses with only a very small amount of troops."
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
Li Dis thought about it: "But Jiao Siluo is very smart. I'm afraid that if he guards against Yuanshan, Yuanshan may not be able to successfully attack him."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It is inevitable for him to guard Yuanshan. It is very common for two coalition forces to be wary of each other. But it is unlikely that he will send heavy troops to guard Yuanshan.
The fact that he sent someone to invite Yuan Shan showed that he was in his heart.
Yuan Shan can, driven by interests, join him in attacking the Song Dynasty.
So he doesn't have much doubt about Yuan Shan.
As long as Yuan Shan doesn't act rashly along the way, he can be patient until the critical moment before taking action.
Then the sneak attack will definitely succeed."
Li Di said thoughtfully: "Should we hand over some certificates of vote and let Yuan Shan take them to the letter corner?"
Kou Ji shook his head with a smile and said, "No need. If you try too hard, Jiao Siluo will see your flaws."
Li Di nodded slowly and said: "Since you have arranged for Yuan Shan to deal with Jiao Si Luo, then your fishing risk will be smaller."
After a pause, Li Di asked: "Speaking of which, why don't you let Yuanshan attack the Xizhou Uighurs and the Black Khan Dynasty? If Yuanshan goes to attack the Xizhou Uighurs and the Black Khan Dynasty, then the people who appear in Hexi will
The Black Khan soldiers must retreat."
Kou Ji sighed: "Jiao Si Luo is ambitious, and the Black Khan King Yu Sufu is also a person who likes to expand the territory. I asked Yuan Shan to attack the Xizhou Uighurs and the Black Khan Dynasty, which can only temporarily alleviate the war in Hexi.
It won't be long before the Black Khan Dynasty will surely make a comeback.
The Qingtang has always been unavailable, which is also a trouble for me in the Song Dynasty.
It's better to lure them out together and catch them all in one fell swoop, once and for all.
and……"
Speaking of this, Kou Ji paused and said with a smile: "I also arranged something in the Black Khan Dynasty."
Li Di was stunned for a moment, and said with some astonishment: "Co-author...you have calculated everything you can."
Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "Since I dare to lure them all out, I naturally made many arrangements. If I am not sure that I can catch them all, I will not lure them out."
Li Di let out a sigh of relief, "I know that you never do anything you're not sure of."
Kou Jixiao asked: "Since you know that I never do anything I'm not sure about, why did you come to Yangguan to ask?"
Li Di snorted, "Is it me who wants to ask? It was that boy Zhong Shiheng who was unsure and begged me to come."
Kou Ji smiled and said nothing, not exposing Li Di's lie.
If Li Dizhen hadn't been worried about this, he would never have rushed to Yangguan.
Zhong Shiheng was unsure, so Li Di would analyze it for him and make him feel at ease, and would never do anything unnecessary.
Seeing that Kou Ji seemed to have read through his own thoughts, Li Di said without blushing, "Since you are sure to defeat all enemies in Hexi, I will not care about the war in Hexi.
After this war is over, you will hand over 300,000 prisoners to me."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and said in confusion: "You really dare to speak out with three hundred thousand prisoners. After this battle, it is a question whether we can capture three hundred thousand prisoners, let alone give you three hundred thousand prisoners."
Li Di said arrogantly: "I don't care about that. In order to help you win this battle, I have also spent a lot of money. Not only is the food in Hexi open for you to eat, but the men in Hexi are also at your disposal.
In addition, I have been operating in Shazhou and Guazhou for ten years. Almost all the trees I planted, the houses I built, the fruit trees I cultivated, and the fertile fields I cultivated were destroyed.
When the enemy is defeated, I will have to lead people to manage Shazhou and Guazhou again.
At that time, a large number of manpower will be needed to build houses, plant trees, and cultivate fruit trees.
In addition, in order to restore the mulberry farming in Shazhou and Guazhou as soon as possible, I still need manpower to dig canals and divert water."
Kou Ji pondered: "Can you manage 300,000 prisoners? If you can't manage just one, they will cause turmoil."
Li Di stared at Kou Ji and said, "Aren't you going to conquer the Xizhou Uighurs and the Black Khan Dynasty in the future? There is a large army guarding one side, how dare they act randomly?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "If we want to conquer the Xizhou Uighurs and the Black Khan Dynasty, we have to wait until we defeat the Liao people. After defeating the troops of the Black Khan Dynasty, Liao Kingdom, and Qingtang this time, I will take the
One part of the troops rushed to Zhending Mansion to fight against the Liao people."
Li Di was stunned for a moment and said in deep thought: "Don't you take the opportunity to take them down in one fell swoop?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "I don't have that time."
Li Di sighed: "That's a pity."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "It's not a pity at all. I have other arrangements.",
Li Di rolled his eyes, "Can't you use some fair and just means?"
Kou Ji spread his hands and said, "I can't defeat you with fair and just methods."
Li Di was stunned and speechless.
How do you speak so confidently about resorting to manipulation?
After Li Di was silent for a while, he said: "Didn't you only take some people to Zhending Mansion? There will definitely be soldiers and horses left in Hexi. Then let them stay in Guazhou and Shazhou."
Kou Ji thought for a while and said: "That's okay...but three hundred thousand is too much. I can only give you one hundred thousand at most."
Li Di curled his lips, "One hundred thousand, just one hundred thousand..."
Let's get what we can get first.
After the war is over, if Kou Ji has enough prisoners, he can still think of ways to continue to take them.
"Then it's settled, you find a place for me, I want to rest."
Li Di said carelessly.
Kou Ji asked Di Qing to prepare a room for Li Di and asked him to take Li Di down to rest.
After Li Di had eaten and drank enough, he fell asleep soon after arriving in the room.
But the Black Khan Wang Yusufu and Xiao Pidi, who were far away in Suoyang City, couldn't sleep no matter what.
The faces of Black Khan Wang Yu Sufu and Xiao Pidi both looked very gloomy.
In front of them were rows of wheelbarrows, filled with human heads.
A quick glance revealed that there were tens of thousands of people there.
"The people who went to attack Yangguan were defeated?!"
Black Khan Yusufu gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.
Xiao Pidi angrily said: "The guard at Yangguan chopped off all the heads of my Liao people and gave them to me as a demonstration to me!"
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu glanced at Xiao Pidi and gritted his teeth and said: "This Khan has fought several battles from Shazhou to here, and has lost more than 200,000 troops!
This Khan never lost so many soldiers and horses when he attacked the Xizhou Uighurs!
Song people deserve to die!"
Xiao Pidi looked at the Black Khan King Yu Sufu and said solemnly: "If the Khan King had listened to the foreign ministers and divided his troops, he would not have lost so many troops."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu said angrily: "I just listened to your words and sent 50,000 troops to attack Yangguan. I don't know why there are no 50,000 troops now."
If I had listened to you earlier, I would have divided all the troops into three groups.
I'm afraid they have been defeated by the Song people long ago."
Xiao Pidi gritted his teeth and did not speak again.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu did not understand the war in the East at all, and no matter how much he said, it would be useless.
He felt that it was a mistake for the Liao Emperor to form an alliance with the Black Khan King Yusufu and attack the Song Dynasty together.
If the Emperor of Liao had approached King Jiao of Qingtang to attack the Song Dynasty together, they might have already reached Xiliang City by now.
The Black Khan Wang Yusufu saw that Xiao Pidi didn't speak anymore, so he ignored Xiao Pidi again.
He ordered his ministers to go down and deliver the order, ordering the whole army to set out and rush to Yumen Pass.
Xiao Pidi could only order the Liao soldiers to follow.
However, before the whole army set off, he sent a civil servant to follow him and rushed to Qingtang.
Previously, the Liao Emperor had sent envoys to contact the Qingtang King and invited the Qingtang King to join forces with the Liao Kingdom and the Black Khan Dynasty to attack the Song Dynasty.
King Qingtang neither agreed nor refused.
That means King Qingtang is already interested and is waiting for the opportunity.
Xiao Pidi knew exactly what opportunity the Qingtang King was waiting for.
However, the troops and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty were obviously unreliable.
Xiao Pidi wants to pull Qingtang soldiers and horses into the water as soon as possible.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu and Xiao Pidi led 600,000 troops and horses, as well as nearly 100,000 wounded soldiers, and pressed towards Yumen Pass in a mighty manner.
It does feel a bit like dark clouds are looming over the city.
After arriving at Yumen Pass, the Black Khan King Yusufu and Xiao Pidi saw that the gate of Yumen Pass was closed and there were many flags on the pass.
Artillery, muskets, crossbows, crossbows, hundreds of tigers running together, etc. were all set up on the top of the city.
Both Black Khan Wang Yusufu and Xiao Pidi felt that it would be difficult to cross this huge barrier in front of them without paying some price.
On Guancheng.
Zhong Shiheng stared at the dark army below the city with squinted eyes, "It's a pity that the battlefield is too small. If the battlefield were larger, I would definitely be able to clear out their troops layer by layer.
Now they can only defend the city by closing the city, slowly consuming their troops."
"..."
Under Guancheng.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu and Xiao Pidi both frowned after watching the defense of Yumen Pass.
Zhong Shiheng is indeed a famous veteran. He has made the security arrangements for closing the Jade Gate watertight.
Black Khan Wang Yusufu and Xiao Pibi observed for a long time, but they could not find any flaws in Guancheng.
"If we can't find any loopholes, we can only attack by force!"
After Xiao Pidi finished observing Yumen Pass, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu looked at Xiao Pidi and said, "Didn't you bring many craftsmen with you? Don't let them build siege equipment quickly."
Xiao Pidi said in a deep voice: "The enemy cut down all the trees we could see along the way. If we want to build siege equipment, we can only send troops and horses hundreds of miles away to cut down the trees.
I'm afraid there will be a day's delay in the process."
Black Khan Wang Yusufu said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry for the delay."
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu had previously seized some grain in Suoyang City that the Song people had not had time to burn.
Now that he has a little food ration, he also has some confidence in his heart, so he speaks a lot more forcefully.
Xiao Pidi heard what the Black Khan King Yu Sufu said, and without saying any more, he immediately sent people to cut wood a hundred miles away.
Just when the Black Khan King Yu Sufu and Xiao Pingli were preparing to attack Yumen Pass.
Braving the cold wind, the group sat astride camels and appeared on the border of the Black Khan Dynasty.
They looked at the familiar etiquette used by the people of the Black Khan Dynasty when greeting each other, and their eyes slowly became fiery.
The flames burned in their eyes, seemingly capable of burning the entire Black Khan Dynasty.
The young man in the lead slowly took off the veil that blocked the wind and sand, opened his arms, and took a deep breath, "I seem to be back in Baghdad!"
The icy cold wind followed the young man's nostrils and entered his chest, but it was unable to shake the heat in the young man's chest.
The young man opened his arms and hugged the void. After smelling the cold air for a long time, he lowered his arms and said with a smile: "For us, this is a holy place!"
"Son of God, the Holy Land is in Baghdad."
"No, our holy place is here."
"..."
Hatuk jumped over the camel's back, reached the young man's side, and said humbly: "Son of God, where should we go next?"
Gargamel did not answer, but asked Hatuk: "Have the people who were sent here to investigate brought back any news?"
Hatuk nodded and said: "Yes... the people here are still bathing in the light of God."
At this point, Hatuk paused and whispered: "It's just that they seem to respect those slave soldiers more."
Gargamel smiled calmly and said: "The Black Khan King Yu Sufu kept those slave soldiers as his bodyguards, so the subjects under his rule naturally respected the slave soldiers.
I don't care about this.
As long as the people here are still bathed in the glory of God, we can conquer this place and make this place our holy land, our kingdom of God.
When we have conquered enough places and our troops are strong enough, we can return to Baghdad and return to the embrace of God.
Let the great Caliph continue to rule over the nations bathed in God.”
When Hatuk heard this, he was speechless and just bowed his head humbly.
Gargamel pondered: "Hatuk, do you think we should go to the city lord's palace here, and the city lord here will lead us to the capital of the Black Khan Dynasty, or should we go directly to the capital of the Black Khan Dynasty?"
Hatuk lowered his head and said: "Although King Yusufu of the Black Khan led a large number of soldiers and horses to attack the Song Dynasty, there are still some soldiers and horses in the Black Khan Dynasty.
They are scattered all over the place and are no match for us.
But if they are concentrated together, it will be difficult for us to compete.
Therefore, we should go to the city lord's palace first and let the city lord lead you into the capital of the Black Khan Dynasty.
When we go to the capital of the Black Khan Dynasty, we can test the loyalty of other soldiers and horses in the Black Khan Dynasty."
"Mamu can't even stay as a guest?"
Gargamel questioned.
Hatuk hurriedly said: "Mamuluke is our last strength, we cannot do too much damage. In case the Song Dynasty fails to contain the Black Khan King Yu Sufu, Mamuluke is the only force that can protect you."
Gargamel said with some regret: "Okay! Then we can only go to the City Lord's Mansion once."
Immediately.
Gargamel and Hatuk led a group of people and slowly entered the Black Khan Dynasty.
When entering the first city of the Black Khan Dynasty.
Gargamel and Hatuk's group were stopped.
"Who?"
The guards guarding the city gate, holding spears, stopped Gargamel and his party.
Gargamel sat on the camel's back, speechless.
Khatuk roared at the guard guarding the door: "Who is it? Give you the authority to stop a son of God from Baghdad?
Aren't you afraid of the caliph's judgment?
Aren’t you afraid of the true God’s condemnation?”
The guards looked at each other, hesitated for a long time, and said to Gargamel sitting on the camel's back: "Dear guests, we need to verify your identity."
"You humble reptiles, you should kneel on the ground and kiss the boots of the Son of God."
Khatuk continued to curse.
The guards did not have Hatuk, so they quickly rushed back to Chengdu to ask the city lord to identify the identity of Gargamel and his party.
Not long after guarding the city, a man with a big belly appeared at the gate of the city in a carriage.
"Who is impersonating the noble Son of God?"
The pot-bellied city lord didn't get off the carriage and asked.
After getting off the carriage, he was slightly startled when he saw Gargamel's rather large team.
He asked slightly suspiciously: "Where does this distinguished guest come from?"
Hatuk did not speak. Gargamel sat on the back of the camel and said calmly: "I come from the Holy City, representing Hakim, and come here to explain the teachings to you."
When the city lord heard this, he was shocked.
Because Gargamel said an incredible name.
Hakim, the name of the current caliph.
In the Black Khan Dynasty, only a few people knew about it.
But no one dared to call him by his first name in public.
Gargamel calls him by his first name in public, which shows that Gargamel is a person of status.
"You are?"
"I live in the Sky City..."
As soon as Gargamel said these words, the city lord lowered his waist to an extremely low position.
But he didn't speak.
He needs Gargamel to produce something sufficient to prove his identity.
Gargamel snorted in displeasure when he saw this.
Ten very distinctive cavalry appeared in front of the city lord.
The city lord raised his head and glanced briefly.
He jumped in front of Gargamel very decisively and saluted Gargamel humbly.
"Honored Son of God, your servant Amul greets you."
Following Gargamel's hum, ten Mamuluke cavalry appeared.
Although the Mamuluke cavalry are slave soldiers, it does not mean that everyone can own them.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu only had 700 horses and guest cavalry around him.
Mamu's presence as a guest is enough to prove Gargamel's identity.
After Gargamel saluted the city lord, he stopped talking.
Hatuk stared at the city lord and said coldly: "Your servant has offended the Son of God, you should know what to do."
The city lord nodded and without saying a word, when he arrived at the city gate, he had the heads of the guards who had been guarding the gate taken off and presented them to Gargamel.
Afterwards, Gargamel entered the city lord's mansion under the respectful welcome of the city lord.
A conspiracy, in the name of explaining the doctrine, but in fact to seek to usurp the throne, completely unfolded.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu, who was far away in Yumen Pass, didn't know that someone had entered the Black Khan Dynasty, and started poaching him like crazy.
After Xiao Pidi prepared the siege equipment, he ordered his soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on Yumen Pass.
However, the cavalry's method of attacking the city was crude and unorganized.
The Song soldiers on top of the city killed them without any difficulty at all.
The only thing that the Black Khan King Yu Sufu could rely on was his military superiority.
He wanted to take advantage of his military superiority to use up the arrows of the Song soldiers on the city top, and then swarm up and break through the Yumen Pass.
However, the Song soldiers on the city seemed to have too many arrows to use up.
He sent out an attack force for two days, but still could not climb to the top of Yumen Pass.
He had no idea that there were only 70,000 Song soldiers resisting the Black Khan's troops, and there were 30,000 more in Guancheng waiting in tight formation.
What's more important is that from the Yumen Pass all the way to the east, stretching for more than ten miles, there are densely packed tents.
The people living in the tents were all people from Guazhou and Shazhou.
At this moment, they are all led by the local magistrates of Shazhou and Guazhou, making arrows, digging stones, and caring for the wounded soldiers for the soldiers who have closed the Yumen Gate.
It can be said that what was revealed in the eyes of Black Khan Wang Yusufu was just the tip of the iceberg.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu sent soldiers and horses and attacked for two days. He lost more than 10,000 Black Khan soldiers and failed to shake Yumen Pass Fenhao.
Xiao Pidi had no choice but to find the Black Khan King Yu Sufu again and proposed to divide his troops.
In the Chinese military tent.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu finally couldn't help his bad temper. He shouted angrily: "Divide the troops. You know how to divide the troops. Apart from dividing the troops, do you know anything else?!"
Xiao Pidi said to Yu Sufu with an ugly expression: "King Khan, we sent troops and horses to attack for two days, but we still failed to shake the powerful forces at Yumen Pass. This shows that Yumen Pass is not easy to win.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are wasted here, which is simply a waste of force.
We can divide our troops into two groups, one group stays here to attack Yumen Pass, and the other group rushes to attack Yangguan Pass.
No matter which part of the city is broken, we can march straight into Xiliang City."
The Black Khan King Yusufu said angrily: "What if the two passes cannot be broken?"
Xiao Pidi said in a deep voice: "Then we will send another group to cross the border along the desert and bypass the two passes."
The Black Khan King Yusufu decisively refused: "I told you not to mention the desert again."
Xiao Pidi pondered for a moment and said: "You can also use the Yuanshanbu and Qingtang roads to cross the border."
Black Khan Wang Yusufu refused again, "No!"
Xiao Pidi has a suggestion from Xiao Pidi.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu had his concerns.
In just ten days, he had already seen the cunningness of Easterners.
It would be extremely dangerous to separate the troops.
Taking the Yuanshanbu and Qingtang roads mentioned by Xiao Pidi is also risky.
If you are passing through someone else's territory, aren't you afraid that they have already colluded with the Song people, set up an ambush, and tricked you?
When the Black Khan King Yusufu fought fiercely with the Xizhou Uighurs, he also had dealings with people from the Yuanshan tribe, and the two sides were not friendly.
And he's not blind to what's going on outside the window.
He knew that the Song people once set up an ambush in the territory of Yuanshan tribe and defeated hundreds of thousands of Yellow-headed Uighur troops in one fell swoop.
Most of the people sent to attack Yangguan were ambushed by the Song people.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Song Dynasty to capture it quietly.
As for crossing the border from the desert, the Black Khan King Yusufu refused from the beginning to the end.