Seeing that the Black Khan King Yusufu refused to divide his troops, Xiao Pidi roughly guessed that the Black Khan King Yusufu had concerns in his heart.
"If King Khan is afraid that if he separates his troops and will be annihilated one by one, the foreign ministers can lead his troops to attack Yangguan."
Xiao resisted the suggestion.
In the current battle situation, if the troops are not divided, it will be difficult to break the situation. The final result will be that they will be killed in front of Yumen Pass.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu insisted on leading the Black Khan soldiers to stay at Yumen Pass and refused to send out any more troops, so Xiao Pidi had no choice but to lead the Liao soldiers and horses to attack Yang Pass.
The Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom are now allies.
The Black Khan Soldier cannot open up the situation, but he can help the Black Khan Soldier open up the situation, which can have the same effect.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu heard Xiao Pidi's suggestion and thought about it for a moment.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu also knew that it was wrong to station the army at Yumen Pass, but he was used to bringing heavy troops, overwhelming others with overwhelming force, and dividing his troops to win by outsmarting him. He was a little unable to control it.
More importantly, he was worried that the Song people would take the opportunity to defeat them one by one, causing him to lose a large number of troops.
Now Xiao Pidi wanted to lead his own troops to attack Yangguan without using the Black Khan soldiers, so Black Khan King Yu Sufu thought he could give it a try.
Anyway, regardless of success or failure, the soldiers and horses lost are not his people, so he will not feel bad.
If Xiao Pidi can lead the Liao soldiers to break through Yangguan, then he can take advantage of the situation and divide his troops to further expand the results.
I had a plan in mind.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu had a gloomy face and whispered: "Since you insist on dividing your troops, I can't stop you. If you want to lead troops to attack Yangguan, then go. If you capture Yangguan, the future war will be
, even I can listen to you.
If you cannot take Yangguan, you will have to listen to this Khan for future wars."
Xiao Pidi was a little surprised when he saw that the Black Khan Wang Yusufu agreed.
After thinking about it carefully, I roughly understood what the Black Khan King Yu Sufu was thinking.
Previously, the Black Khan King Yu Sufu followed his advice and sent out 50,000 troops to attack Yangguan. After the 50,000 soldiers and horses went to Yangguan, they were like mud cows entering the sea without a trace.
The Black Khan King Yu Sufu must have been distressed by the beating, so he became cautious.
Through this, Xiao Pidi roughly understood what kind of person the Black Khan King Yu Sufu was.
In the heart of Black Khan Wang Yusufu, he would not feel bad if his own things were lost before his eyes.
If you are out of his sight and disappear quietly, he will feel distressed and become very cautious.
It's like a gambler who gambles with hundreds of thousands of coins. He won't feel bad if he spends hundreds of thousands of coins on the gambling table, but if he gives some away to others to gamble and loses nothing, he will be very upset.
Feeling distressed and very cautious.
As for other people gambling with other people's money, if the bet wins, everyone benefits together, but if the bet loses, he won't lose anything, so he doesn't care.
It may not be appropriate to compare the Black Khan King Yu Sufu to a gambler.
But the thoughts are similar.
After Xiao Pidi understood the thoughts of the Black Khan King Yu Sufu, he said nothing more.
Because he could somewhat understand the thoughts of the Black Khan King Yu Sufu.
If a Black Khan comes to teach him how to fight, and then persuades him to divide his troops, and after the troops are divided, there will be no splash at all, and the whole army will be annihilated, he will not listen to the other side again.
He would even chop off the opponent, hang his head on the flagpole, and put all the blame for the defeat on him to cleanse himself.
But he understood, but he would not follow the Black Khan King Yu Sufu's path to the end.
After the Black Khan King Yusufu agreed to divide the troops, he discussed the details with the Black Khan King Yusufu and left with more than 80,000 Liao soldiers, heading straight for Yangguan.
The scene of more than 80,000 Liao cavalry leaving was quite spectacular.
The lookout hand behind the closed jade door could see clearly.
After the lookout saw Liao Qi heading towards Yangguan, he immediately reported the matter to Zhong Shiheng.
On the city of Yumen Pass.
Inside the city gate tower.
A school captain bowed down and told Zhong Shiheng about the Liao soldiers going to Yangguan.
Zhong Shiheng put down a volume of miscellaneous books in his hand and said with a smile: "Are you saying that the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao Allied Forces under the city have divided their forces?"
"Yes, handsome."
"Only Liao soldiers went to Yangguan?"
"yes……"
Zhong Shiheng shook his head and smiled, picked up the miscellaneous books again, and said with a smile while flipping through: "The Black Khan King Yu Sufu is really a petty person. Why not give it to Xiao to fight against a hundred thousand Black Khan soldiers?"
It would be a waste to leave it in his hands anyway..."
At this point, Zhong Shiheng didn't even raise his head, and pointed casually, "Go, send people to Yangguan at high speed, tell Di Qing about this, and let Di Qing prepare a banquet to entertain the guests."
The captain agreed and prepared to go down to deliver the order.
Just walked a few steps.
Zhong Shiheng suddenly put down his miscellaneous books and said: "Come back..."
The captain quickly turned around and stood with a bow, waiting quietly for Zhong Shiheng's instructions.
Zhong Shiheng said calmly: "There is no need to pass on the next sentence."
The captain raised his head and looked at Zhong Shiheng with some confusion.
Zhong Shiheng curled his lips and said: "Now that Privy Kou is sitting in Yangguan, do I have the qualifications to teach him how to do things?"
The captain suddenly realized.
Zhong Shiheng waved his hand.
The captain left the city gate building and sent someone to deliver the order.
After the messenger galloped out of Yangguan, the people arrived at Yangguan within half a day.
The news that the Liao soldiers were about to arrive at Yangguan was also sent to Kou Ji.
After reading the news, Kou Ji said to Di Qing who was standing aside: "As expected, the troops at Yumen Pass have been divided, and those coming to Yang Pass are all Liao soldiers.
The leader should be Xiao Pidi."
Di Qing asked: "Then how should we respond?"
Kou Ji thought for a moment and then ordered: "Send 10,000 black Khan soldiers up, let them stand in front, and let our people supervise the battle from behind."
Di Qing hesitated and said: "Black Khan soldiers don't need to be beaten..."
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "They were sent up because there was no fight. If our people were to defend the city, the Liao soldiers might not even be able to cross the ditch in front of the city."
The Yongxing army was equipped with artillery and muskets.
If artillery and muskets were placed on the top of the city, coupled with hundreds of tigers running together, fire crossbows, meteor arrows, bed crossbows, heavy crossbows and other crossbows to cooperate, the Liao soldiers would be suppressed and would not dare to take the lead.
"Xiao Pidi is as good at fighting as Black Khan Wang Yusufu. If he can't get an advantage in Yangguan, he will definitely not fight against Yangguan, and 80% of the time he will continue to go around. Let him go somewhere else for a stroll, it is better to put him under our eyes.
Staring down there.”
"As a result, we may become very passive."
"Let's be passive. We retreat and defend, the purpose is to fish out the green pond. If the big fish in the green pond doesn't take action, we won't take action."
"..."
Di Qing understood what Kou Ji meant and immediately went down to arrange his troops.
Kou Ji did not follow him out, but ordered the kitchen to cook some delicious food and took it to see Li Di.
He can lay out specific and big strategies, but he will never interfere in the war.
Di Qing had already made arrangements on the top of the city, just waiting for the enemy to arrive.
Now Kou Ji wants the Black Khan soldiers to attack first, and Di Qing's arrangement needs to be slightly adjusted.
After Di Qing made some adjustments, 10,000 Black Khan soldiers were escorted to the top of the city.
After the Black Khan soldiers reached the top of the city, Di Qing divided them into hundreds of groups.
Place them on each crenel respectively.
In order to prevent them from being lazy and rebelling, standing behind them were far more than twice their number of Imperial Guard officers.
The officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army were all infantry, wearing iron armor, holding steel knives in their hands, and carrying muskets on their backs.
After Di Qing arranged the Black Khan soldiers, he was not in a hurry to give them swords, guns and arrows.
Instead, he first ordered someone to cook some mutton soup, and gave each person a bowl.
After they drank the mutton soup, Di Qing asked someone to translate for them and told them that if they won the battle, they would have meat to eat, but if they lost the battle or escaped from the battle, they would die.
The translator translated all Di Qing's words to the Black Khan soldiers.
When the Black Khan soldiers heard what Di Qing said, they were a little commotion.
It's just that Di Qing didn't give them a chance to speak.
After Di Qing finished speaking to the translator, he waved his hand.
Twenty thousand Forbidden Army soldiers all drew out their steel knives and aimed them at their backs.
The Black Khan soldiers succumbed under the threat of meat and steel knives.
They stood at the entrance of the crenel one after another, assuming a posture to respond to the enemy.
Di Qing immediately ordered people to distribute them swords and guns, bed crossbows, heavy crossbows, hundreds of tigers running together and other items.
He also ordered people to teach them how to operate bed crossbows and heavy crossbows, so that hundreds of tigers can run together.
The reason why Di Qing didn't equip them with crossbows was because he was afraid of their backlash.
Once the crossbow, heavy crossbow, and Hundred Tigers are set up on the top of the city and aimed outside the city, it will take some time to turn around and aim inside the city.
Once they made a move to counterattack with crossbows, heavy crossbows, etc., the Forbidden Army soldiers behind them would kill them without hesitation.
As for the prisoners of the Black Khan soldiers, it was impossible for them to turn around and hurt people with knives.
They were holding ordinary swords and guns used by local soldiers and horses, which could not cut through the armor of the Forbidden Army soldiers.
Di Qing didn't understand the Black Khan Dynasty, let alone the troops and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty, so he arranged it very carefully.
In fact, the real people of the Black Khan Dynasty would never be so strict about guarding captured soldiers.
Because in the eyes of the Black Khan people, those who are captured are the slaves of the other party. They can do whatever the other party asks them to do and basically will not resist.
They have lived under a strict caste system for hundreds of years, and their servility has been deeply rooted in their bones.
You can't change it for a while.
After Di Qing distributed weapons to the Black Khans, he took strict precautions against them.
Even though they were very obedient, Di Qing was still not careless.
The Black Khans could only face the outside of Guancheng one by one, standing like javelins. The cold wind made them shiver all over, and they did not dare to move.
Seeing this, Di Qing ordered someone to get a batch of rotten leather jackets that local soldiers had replaced and threw them to them.
After the Black Khan got the rotten leather jacket, he was so excited that he shed tears.
Because they felt that they had met a kind slave owner.
Di Qing didn't understand the other person's mood. The Black Khan was afraid of the Forbidden Army soldiers behind him and did not dare to speak.
When Di Qing saw her face bursting with tears, she thought she was homesick.
If Di Qing knew what they were thinking, he would definitely tell them that the reason why he gave the black sweaters leather jackets was to enable them to better serve the Song Dynasty.
If the Black Khan people knew that Di Qing gave them fur coats to make them work better, then they would still have tears in their eyes.
Because in the hearts of the black Khan people, it is right to work for the slave master.
When slave owners gave them something, it was a great gift.
They should kneel down and kiss Di Qing's boots.
With excitement, the Black Khans occupied the top of Yangguan City for two full hours.
Xiao Pidi then led the Liao soldiers to the outside of Yangguan Pass.
After arriving outside the city of Yangguan Pass, Xiao Pidi was not in a hurry to knock the pass because he did not have enough weapons to knock the pass.
Xiao Pidi sent people to set up a camp outside the pass.
Then he sent people to cut down trees and make siege equipment.
The trees outside Yangguan were all cut down.
Therefore, when Xiao Pidi wants to build siege equipment, he needs to send people to far away places to cut down trees.
When Di Qing saw that the Liao soldiers led by Xiao Pidi did not rush towards Yangguan like the group of iron fools before, he guessed that the Liao soldiers would not attack the city today.
But he did not relax his vigilance because of this, and still sat on the city gate tower, staring closely at the Liao army outside the city.
In a flash, it was midnight.
Di Qing ordered his men to take the Black Khans out of the city and let the Yongxing Army take over the defense again. Then he ran into the city to find Kou Ji.
When Di Qing found Kou Ji, Kou Ji and Li Di were lighting the stove and cooking a casserole to cook meat.
"Eat together..."
When Kou Ji saw Di Qing, he invited Di Qing to sit down and eat together.
Di Qing was not polite, sat aside, took a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and started to rinse the meat.
Ate a few slices of tender meat.
Di Qing put down his bowl and chopsticks and said: "Xiao Pidi is not in a hurry to attack the city..."
While eating the boiled meat, Kou Ji said: "He is not the fool who didn't know how to fight, so he can't rush to attack the city. You ordered people to cut down all the trees outside Yangguan.
If he wanted to build siege equipment, he had to go to the snowy mountains (Qilian Mountains) far away to cut trees.
By the time he has cut enough wood and prepared the siege equipment, it will probably be tomorrow evening.
So tomorrow, he probably won't attack the city."
Li Di slowly put down his bowls and chopsticks and muttered: "Xiao Pidi is not a simple character. In order to avoid his sneak attack at night, you still have to be alert."
Di Qing solemnly said: "I have divided the Yongxing army into two groups, guarding the city head day and night. I will never let Xiao Pian take advantage of it."
Kou Ji put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said with some displeasure: "I told you to talk, just talk. Why are you putting down the bowl and chopsticks? Are you showing off your etiquette to me?"
Di Qing was stunned for a moment, smiled bitterly, and said: "Brother, you are serious..."
Li Di stroked his beard and said calmly: "I am a polite person, how can I be like you..."
Kou Ji picked up the bowl and chopsticks again and said disdainfully: "Prudes...don't eat if you have the guts..."
Li Di said decisively: "That's not possible..."
After finishing speaking, Li Di picked up the bowl and chopsticks again and ate the hot-boiled pork with Kou Ji.
Di Qing also picked up the bowls and chopsticks again and joined in the fight for the shabu-shabu.
This time, the three of them were eating hot-pot meat and talking at the same time.
Just now Di Qing and Li Di put down their bowls and chopsticks to talk, just out of habit.
In Di Qing's eyes, Kou Ji is his elder brother. When talking to his elder brother, he must be polite.
Although Li Di is Kou Ji's elder, his current official status is lower than Kou Ji's, so he subconsciously observes etiquette.
In Li Di's heart, Kou Ji was no longer the junior who could be manipulated at will.
Kou Ji's power now is much greater than when Li Di was at his peak.
Li Di has to observe some etiquette more or less.
Although Zhao Zhen also added some identities to Li Di again and again when Li Di was in charge of Hexi.
But no matter how high his status is, he can't compare to Kou Ji who holds the Emperor's Sword.
However, Kou Ji is a person who likes to get along with family and friends as equals.
So after he saw this, he spoke out.
When Di Qing and Li Di saw this, they naturally relaxed a lot.
While eating the boiled meat, Di Qing said to Kou Ji: "Brother, today I escorted those black Khans to the top of the city. They behaved very strangely."
Kou Ji asked, "What kind of weird method?"
Di Qing said frankly: "According to common sense, we sent prisoners to lead the battle. After the prisoners got the weapons, they would resist to some extent. But after the black Khans got the weapons today, they were surprisingly obedient. No one resisted from the beginning to the end.
Not only that, I saw them shivering in the cold wind blowing on the top of the city. I sent someone to give them some fur coats that local soldiers had replaced, and they all burst into tears."
After hearing what Di Qing said, Kou Ji thought for a moment and smiled, "It seems that the status of those Black Khan soldiers in the Black Khan Dynasty is not high."
Li Di asked curiously: "How do you say this?"
Di Qing also looked at Kou Ji curiously.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The Black Khan Dynasty is a country with clear and strict hierarchies. They have always used the slavery system, and servility has penetrated into the bones of the lower class people.
In addition, in order to consolidate its supremacy, religions constantly tell them through preaching that they deserve to suffer.
In addition, there are strict legal restrictions.
They have become accustomed to being ruled, enslaved and oppressed by others."
Li Di said thoughtfully: "Like slaves in the pre-Qin period? Slaves are equivalent to goods. They can be bought, sold, or given away. Whoever is in their hands will work hard for whom?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "There is one difference. The slaves in the pre-Qin period had more or less their own ideas, but they didn't. They only had religion in their minds."
Li Di's pupils shrank slightly, he stared at Kou Ji and said solemnly: "I understand why you and the officials want to punish those monks ruthlessly."
Kou Ji smiled and said nothing.
In fact, the harm caused by monks to the Song Dynasty was more in terms of land and money.
It is absolutely impossible for those in power to allow divine power to prevail over kingly power.
Anyone who attempts to place divine power above the power of kings will inevitably be targeted by everyone in the government and the public.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, it was impossible for divine power to be superior to monarchy, let alone to become a mainstream idea to harm the people.
What can harm the ideas of the people of the Song Dynasty are the rotten words of corrupt Confucians.
Those corrupt Confucians, in order to consolidate their status and wealth, distort the words of saints and instill their own ideas into the people, causing harm to the people.
Di Qing didn't quite understand this, and he didn't want to understand it. After listening to Kou Ji's words, he asked: "So after they were captured by us, they regarded themselves as our slaves and were willing to let us follow our trends?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Absolutely. But we still have to be careful. We can't relax our vigilance against them just because they regard themselves as our slaves."
Di Qing nodded thoughtfully.
Kou Ji continued: "But we can use this to better control them. When they are fighting, you can appropriately select some people with military exploits according to their military exploits and appoint them as slave leaders.
Those slave leaders will know how to help us control them.
When the war is over and we assign them to work as coolies, the slave leaders can also use them."
Having said this, Kou Ji looked at Di Qing and reminded: "Give those slave leaders some appropriate rewards, and they will work harder for you and be extremely loyal to you."
"clear……"
After discussing the matter, the three of them finished the hot-boiled meat.
Wandering around the yard, the night is already deep.
Kou Ji said goodbye to Di Qing and Li Di and returned to the room alone.
After returning to the room and washing up, Koji sat by the bed and murmured with a smile: "I thought that after the Black Khan dynasty broke away from the control of Baghdad, it would change some policies and deepen its rule over the people.
Unexpectedly, the Baghdad method was still used.
In this way, Gargamel taking people to the Black Khan Dynasty is like a mouse entering a rice vat.
The royal power of the Black Khan King Yu Sufu is probably about to be lost."
Ridiculed the Black Khan Wang Yusufu.
Kou Ji lay on the bed and fell asleep.
The next day.
early morning.
A cold wind blew outside Yangguan.
Little snowflakes are falling in the cold wind.
There wasn't much snow, but the wind was extremely cold.
Di Qing braved the cold wind and went up to Yangguan Pass City.
Then the Black Khans were dispatched to the top of the city again and guarded the city.
After last night's conversation with Kou Ji, Di Qing had the idea of communicating with the Black Khans.
As a result, Di Qing spent the whole day walking among the Black Khans with a translator.
After some understanding.
Di Qing discovered that the thoughts of the Black Khans were similar to what Kou Ji said.
They feel that they have become slaves.
And they originally did things for the slave owners, so that the slave owners could reward them with some food.
The Song Dynasty did not have the habit of starving prisoners.
Because prisoners who needed to starve were basically sent to the Palace of Hell.
Whatever is left behind is useful.
It was indeed a bit hard for the Black Khans to defend the city in the wind and snow.
Therefore, Di Qing generously rewarded those Heihan people who were more serious in defending the city with a piece of meat and bones.
As Kou Ji expected, the Liao soldiers did not knock on the pass all day long, but instead worked hard outside the pass to make siege equipment.
Therefore, people inside and outside Yangguan.
Had a peaceful day.
The next day.
When the sky is bright and bright.
The horns of the Liao soldiers sounded.
When Kou Ji heard the horn sound, he reluctantly got off the heated kang, put on his clothes, and went out.
As soon as he went out, he saw Di Qing wearing armor and running out in a hurry.
When Kou Ji went out, he only saw the back of Di Qing.
Li Di, holding a hand warmer, appeared beside Kou Ji and whispered, "Have the Liao soldiers started to knock on the door?"
Kou Ji nodded and said: "The horns sounded in succession. It should be that more than eight Liao soldiers were dispatched at the same time."