Kou Ji was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhu Neng's words.

Seeing Zhu Neng's gloomy face, he said: "In my lifetime, I don't want to see the Iron Harrier slaughter my Great Song Dynasty soldiers again." ”

Kou Ji pondered for a moment, "He doesn't have enough money, we can help him cushion it first." ”

Zhu Neng nodded and did not speak again.

on the battlefield.

The Iron Harrier was besieged on all sides.

There was no need for Zhu Neng to deliberately command, the military formation slowly turned into an iron bucket formation, and besieged the iron harrier.

The Song army adopted the tactics of crowd to destroy the Iron Harrier outside the Yumen Pass.

"Go! Just go! Hurry up and let Yeli meet the beggars, and lead the soldiers and horses out to help. ”

Li Yuanhao shouted like thunder at the head of the city.

Yeli Yu beggar decisively left the city, and rushed out of the Yumen Pass with the cavalry of the Yeli tribe.

Chaos war.

A very chaotic battle started under the Jade Gate.

Zhu Neng ordered the soldiers and horses on both wings, as well as the cavalry behind him, to rush forward and block the cavalry led by Yeli Yuqi.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses piled up at the gate of Yumen Pass, fighting each other.

It was difficult for the cavalry led by Yeli Yuqi to launch an effective charge in such a chaotic battle.

Their greatest advantage is mobility.

Therefore, they can occupy a certain advantage in field battles and tough battles.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses of the Western Xia and Liao kingdoms rarely cared about the gains and losses of one city and one place.

Therefore, they liked to drag the Song army into the wilderness, or lengthen the supply lines of the Song army to expand the advantage of cavalry.

Defensive warfare is not what they are good at.

A huge number of chaotic wars are not what they are good at.

The Iron Harrier entered the military formation of the Song army, as if entering a no-man's land.

But they can't.

The heavy step armor on Song Jun's body was not paper-paste.

"Kill ......"

Yeli Yuqi led his soldiers and horses to kill at the Jade Gate Pass for a full three quarters of an hour before he successfully rescued an iron harrier.

Then he fought and rescued one by one.

It wasn't until he saw the figure of the patrol horse guard that he decisively led people out of the battlefield.

"Mingjin!"

"Collect the troops!"

After Zhu Neng saw Yeli Yuqi withdraw from the battlefield, he sighed regretfully and ordered the herald to withdraw his troops.

He also wanted to use the patrol horse guard to drag the soldiers and horses led by Yeli Yuqi into the chaotic battle and take the opportunity to kill him.

But after seeing the patrol guard, Ye Li Yu beggar decisively withdrew and did not look back.

Not fooled at all.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

After the drums of the army were beaten.

Zhu Neng led a new army formation composed of soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty and slowly withdrew from the battlefield.

"Bang bang bang!"

Li Yuanhao stood at the head of the city, his face gloomy and dripping blood.

He waved his fist and slammed the battlement of the jade door shut.

Eighteen hundred iron harriers attacked.

Fewer than 700 people were rescued.

More than 1,000 iron harriers were buried under the Jade Gate.

Their armor and horses were taken away when the Song army retreated.

Li Yuanhao felt that the treasury of Western Xia seemed to be moved by one-third of the Song army at once.

"Those armors will be temporarily stored in your hands, and when I take Yangguan and destroy Li Zhaoliang, I will settle accounts with you!"

Li Yuanhao was secretly ruthless in the city.

Zhu Neng had already led his soldiers to slowly withdraw from the battlefield and return to the barracks.

After returning to the barracks.

The wounded soldiers were quickly sent to the place where the military doctor was stationed for treatment.

The bones of the dead soldiers were placed in the center of the school grounds.

The Iron Harrier's armor was pulled off in unison and arranged in a row under the stage.

The corpses of the iron harriers and the corpses of the war horses were thrown into a corner of the camp and piled up into a hill.

According to the rules set by Kou Ji after he arrived in Shazhou.

It won't be long before the remains will be buried in the soil and used as fertilizer for the land in Hexi.

Zhu Neng stood on the podium and shouted to the soldiers in the audience.

"In this battle, our army has won a great victory! The iron harrier that Li Yuanhao relied on the most was crippled by us. From now on, the Iron Harrier will never pose any threat to us again. ”

"Win!"

"Win!"

"Wan Sheng!"

The soldiers shouted with all their might.

After the soldiers shouted, Zhu Neng continued: "In this battle, those who cut the first level of the Iron Harrier will be promoted to the third level and given a hundred pieces of money...... Soldiers who died in battle will be given a hundred dollars...... If the soldier is seriously injured, he will be given 90 yuan of money...... If you lightly injured a soldier, you will be given 20 pieces of money...... But those who are willing to stay in Hexi will be given a thousand acres of land...... Meritorious soldiers who are willing to move to Hexi will be recorded as official ......"

"Roar!!"

"Roar!"

When the soldiers heard this, they shouted frantically.

Unprecedented generosity.

Since they joined the army, they have encountered the most generous gift.

How can they not be excited, how can they not be excited?

In an instant, they changed from a big-headed soldier to a small rich man, how could they not be excited.

What's more, Xu Guan.

Xu Guan.

As long as you have merit, as long as you are willing to stay in Hexi, you can become an official.

Although Hexi is remote, many literati were reluctant to stay.

But for them, the big soldiers, it was a rare opportunity.

Becoming an official is the lifelong dream of many of them.

They don't care where they are officials.

They have been to even the most remote places, and they have also stayed in the most barren places.

As long as you can be an official.

Their deceased ancestors will be posthumously crowned, and their wives and children will have the opportunity to be shaded.

Although Zhu Neng did not give the soldiers the power to Xu Guan.

But the soldiers did not doubt Zhu Neng's words.

Because few people dare to be in the barracks, they lose their trust to tens of thousands of soldiers.

Zhu Neng saw the soldiers roaring, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "A group of officials are ......"

The soldiers were instantly shaken and laughed.

The grief in the barracks was diluted a lot.

In the laughter of the soldiers, Zhu Neng shouted again: "In addition, the soldiers who participated in the war today will each be rewarded with one pound of mutton and two taels of turbid wine......

"Roar!"

For a moment, the soldiers were shouting like crazy.

The shouting was many times louder than just now.

Only a few people can get credit on the battlefield, and those who lose their lives or are wounded are also a minority.

Therefore, the reward just now is only for a few people.

The soldiers shouted, on the one hand, to be happy for their comrades, and on the other hand, to give Zhu Neng face.

This time is different, they can all get the benefits, and they are naturally happy.

In the shouts of the soldiers, Zhu Neng said, "Okay...... Leave a team of soldiers behind, collect the corpses of comrades who died in battle, and the rest go to eat meat and drink wine......"

The soldiers shouted and dispersed.

After the soldiers left.

The smile on Zhu Neng's face gradually faded, and he looked at the lying corpses on the school field and sighed.

Kou Ji slowly walked to Zhu Neng's side and said in a low voice, "Don't worry...... I don't have any other skills, but I still have the ability to make their widows rich and live the rest of their lives well. ”

For this, Zhu Neng does not doubt it.

After hearing Kou Ji's words, Zhu Neng nodded slowly and said, "That's fine, I'm also worthy of them." ”

After a pause, Zhu Neng looked at Kou Ji and said, "Their corpses are left here, or are they sent back?" ”

Kou Ji said seriously: "After cremation, bury it on the spot." This place will also be the territory of my Great Song Dynasty in the future, and they are not considered to be buried in another country. In the future, the people of the Great Song Dynasty took root here, knowing that my Great Song soldiers were buried under this land, and they also knew that this place had the heroic soul of the Han family. ”

Kou Ji looked at Zhu Neng and said, "Wherever there is the heroic soul of the Han family, it should be the territory of my Han family." ”

Zhu Neng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "That's ...... have to be beaten."

There are not a few Han souls buried in other places.

In faraway Goryeo, there are several huge Gyeongseong temples formed by the accumulation of Han bones.

It still stands in Goryeo today.

After the Goryeo envoys arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, they did not talk about them less, and they were not less proud of them.

Kou Ji heard Zhu Neng's words and smiled indifferently: "It's okay...... I'm still young......"

Zhu Neng laughed and said, "It's also right......"

After a pause, Zhu Neng asked Kou Jidao, "Why do you want to give those soldiers an official?" Aren't you afraid that those civil servants in the court will impeach you? ”

Kou Ji squinted at Zhu Neng and said with a puzzled expression: "What impeached me?" Is it because I am not satisfied with the pacification of the states in the Western Regions that the official family has given me, or am I dissatisfied with the power that the official family has given me below the fifth grade and can be determined by me? ”

Zhu Neng glared in astonishment, and said with a wry smile: "I forgot about this stubble, I lost my word......

In the past, the Western Regions did not have the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, so the title of pacification envoy of the Western Regions states above Kou Ji's head was bluffing.

But now the Great Song Dynasty has won three states in the Western Regions.

Na Ko Ji is a veritable feudal official.

The military and political power in the three states was grasped.

What are some petty officials?

Under special circumstances, it is reasonable for some senior officials.

How can the courtiers impeach?

Impeachment for his abuse of appeasement powers?

Then you have to ask the other pacifiers if they agree.

After all, to accuse Koji of abusing the power of the pacifier is to touch the power of the other pacifiers.

Who can serve as a pacification envoy who is not a person with identity and background?

Break them one by one, and no one cares.

But to use the power of all of them, isn't that looking for abuse?

All of them are second- and third-grade officers, and they don't often speak out in the court on weekdays, so they really think they have no combat effectiveness?

Zhu Neng figured out the joints, and stopped talking to Kou Ji about this matter.

He can kill all sides on the battlefield, but that doesn't mean he can meddle in the affairs of Koji's governance of the place.

The two said this casually and returned to the big tent of the Chinese army.

The documents accompanying the army have already counted the battle losses of this battle clearly and reported them to Kou Ji and Zhu Neng.

"Three thousand one hundred and sixty-seven killed, eight thousand and thirty-nine wounded......"

After Kou Ji saw the number of casualties, he handed the paperwork in his hand to Zhu Neng, and said with a long sigh: "In order to deal with the Iron Harrier, you have really made a lot of money...... Before I went to war, I thought you had a bodhisattva heart.

Now it seems that you are more ruthless than before. ”

Zhu Neng took the paperwork, read it carefully, and after reading it, he said: "It's because I feel sorry for the soldiers, that's why I made such a big investment." The Iron Harrier is extremely fierce, and keeping the Iron Harrier will only allow them to slaughter more soldiers of my Great Song Dynasty.

Killing the Iron Harrier at the cost of blood will certainly cause many casualties.

But it protected more soldiers.

You should know the difference. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Treating the Iron Harrier, he actually has the same idea as Zhu Neng.

If you can kill and maim them once, you will never tolerate them living a second time.

Although Koji has artillery, muskets, and invincible mine cannons in his hands.

But these things can't be mass-produced yet.

Small quantities.

can't take care of all the Great Song soldiers and horses.

The Invincible Minegun has a limit when it is used, and is of limited use if there is no way to allow the enemy to enter the minefield.

The artillery was unusually heavy and inconvenient to transport.

Mobility is too poor to appear in every battle with an Iron Harrier in time.

As for the muskets.

It has a strong lethality and deterrent power against ordinary light horses and foot soldiers.

In the face of the Iron Harrier, the lethality is also very limited.

The bullets fueled by black powder are difficult to penetrate the armor of the Iron Harrier.

In this battle, only one person died under the musket.

That person was killed by Chen Datou, one of the men who patrolled the horses.

There are many horse guards, but there is only one sharpshooter, Chen Datou.

In the rapid movement of both the enemy and us, the only one who can hit the enemy's eye socket with one blow is Chen Datou.

"The iron harriers in Yumen Pass are crippled, it depends on how the war in Yangguan is. If the soldiers of Yangguan can eat the iron harriers that raided Yangguan. Then the Iron Harrier will no longer be a threat to us. ”

Zhu Neng put down the official document in his hand and subconsciously looked in the direction where Yangguan was.

Kou Ji also subconsciously followed and looked at Yangguan.

……

Yangguan.

On the city wall several feet high, in the forest of banners.

Inside and outside the city, it was desolate.

The wind howled.

Wind and sand are blowing everywhere.

Even though it's spring, Yangguan still can't see much spring.

The city was full of soldiers, and there was no one in the city.

The soldiers on the city wall, one by one wearing armor and holding blades, looked curiously at the big black iron cylinder.

After staring at the big iron cylinder for a long time, he set his eyes on the outside of the city.

Looking at a group of people outside the city wearing cloth clothes, carrying hoes, pushing carts, burying black iron balls one by one.

The black iron ball was buried in the northwest corner outside the city.

It is the place where the people of Yumen Pass must pass through.

"These things...... Will it work? ”

The general defending the city asked Gao Yi, the captain of the Japanese army who came to their aid, with a puzzled expression.

Gao Yi stared at the person burying the black iron ball outside the city for a few moments, and then groped for the big iron cylinder beside him in the disgusted eyes of the servants of the Kou Mansion, and said with emotion: "Can it be done?" Absolutely. These things are far more powerful than you think. ”

The general defending the city was Li Zhaoliang's subordinate, and followed Li Zhaoliang all the way to the Western Regions.

So I didn't see the power of artillery and invincible mine artillery.

After hearing Gao Yi's words, the soldiers guarding the city said with a solemn expression: "Gao Yi, we are also colleagues, and we used to stir horses and spoons in a pot. Don't lie to me.

Yangguan is very important to us.

Once Yangguan is lost, General Li will be in danger in Suzhou and Ganzhou.

I haven't seen what those soldiers in Shazhou City looked like when they were short of food and clothing.

But you've seen it.

You should understand what will become of the grain and grass once it is cut off.

Do you really want to put General Lee's life on this thing? ”