Fugu Huaien stood at the head of the city, looking at the Song army outside the city and arranging artillery at the city gate, his brows furrowed. Since the Song army besieged the city, he sent two envoys to negotiate, but there was no result, and when he was depressed, the Song army came from behind to besiege the city. I have sent people to Yanqi several times, but I don't know if the letter has been delivered. Looking at the Song army besieging the city, there are at least tens of thousands of people, do the 10,000 people in his city dare to go up and fight?

At this moment, Long Luo Dusha came and said with a forked hand: "King, the new news that the Song army has occupied Baishui City. Not only that, but most of the other cities were occupied by the Song army, and Gaochang actually became an isolated city. ”

Fugu Huaien turned around and asked, "In this way, wouldn't the army of the Song army need fifty or sixty thousand people?" And even more! With such a large number of troops, quietly and quickly coming here from the meandering road, why is there no news at all? ”

Long Luodu Sha said: "King, the Song army built the railway to Yizhou, but only soldiers can sit. The people in Shengzhou, even if they got the news of the Song army's attack, how could they send it to Gaochang? The Song army has besieged the city for several days, and now the hearts of the people in the city are fluctuating, and if there is no war, the internal chaos will be the first! ”

Fugu Huaien was silent for a while, and sighed: "The soldiers and horses in Gaochang City are not elite soldiers, how can they fight?" These Song armies defeated the Khitan first, and then defeated the party's strong army! Alas, it would have been good to know that today, when the Song army occupied Hequ Road, it would have been good to send envoys! ”

Long Luo Dusha said: "What's the use of talking about this now? Sending envoys, Song Jun only said that he was acting on orders and wanted to ask Du Jieshuai. Now that the city is besieged, where to find Du Jieshuai? In my opinion, the Song army deliberately did this, just to raise troops to attack! ”

Fugu Huaien turned around and looked at the Song army camp outside the city, and sighed secretly in his heart. Originally, he was friendly with the Khitan, but the Song army occupied the Hequ Road, because he didn't know the situation there, he sent envoys, and he thought that the Khitan would soon recover. Who knew that after delaying again and again, the results had not yet been discussed in the country, and the Song army had already come to besiege the city. The army is surrounded, what is the use of asking now?

After thinking for a long time, Fu Gu Huaien said: "But for today's plan, we must plan to break through." Yanqi has not moved, Baishui has been occupied, and now the retreat has been blocked. Tomorrow, you lead your army out of the city and engage the Song army to see how powerful they are. Don't get too entangled, if the war is unfavorable, quickly retreat to the city, and then we will discuss other countermeasures. ”

Long Luo Dusha said: "The Song army has occupied Baishui City, where can we retreat?" Yanqi can't go, where did he go, the Song army and Hei Khan fought back and forth, and there was nowhere to run. I want to go to the North Garden, but now there is no way. ”

Fugu Huaien said: "How many people can the Song army have?" When they attacked the city, they suddenly went out and attacked Whitewater City. Whitewater is a small city, and it can't stop us. Climb over the Tianshan Mountains and go to the North Garden, where the desert is backed, and the Song army is helpless! ”

The Uighurs were originally nomadic peoples, who migrated westward from Mobei and were driven away by the Khitans and Dangxiang along the way. There is no strong force in the Western Regions, so it has settled here. As a Turkic remnant, Black Khan is divided into several pieces, and it can slowly gain the upper hand, which shows the difference in its combat power. Now in the face of the siege of the Song army, the first thing that Fugu Huaien thought of was to escape, run to the grassland, run to the desert, can the Song army keep chasing?

After sending Longluo Dusha, Fugu Huaien looked at the situation of the Song army outside the city for a while, and sighed in his heart. In the past, where the Song army was like this time, the situation changed completely in a few days. War was meant to be a long-term affair, especially here in the Western Regions, where the territory was vast and the population was sparse, and it would take years to prepare for a move. Like the Song army, they captured Hequ Road two years ago, and now they have reached Gaochang, and the speed is really amazing. Could it be that the future war will be at such a speed? Where is the strength of defense in an ordinary small country?

In the barracks outside the city, Zhao Zi said to Qin Youpeng and the others: "The marshal has come to the official document and wants us to start attacking the city as soon as possible. Zhang Qi's subordinates have already blocked the surroundings of Gaochang, and there is no army to save them, so there is no point in dragging it down. Tomorrow Deputy Envoy Zhang will come, and when the Deputy Envoy comes, he will start attacking the city! ”

The generals promised.

Qin Youpeng said: "According to Zhang Qi's attack on Liuzhong City, Gaochang's combat power is not strong. If we concentrate our artillery and quickly blast open the city gates, we should be able to quickly occupy Gaochang. There were Uighur khans and nobles in the city, and after this war, the Uighurs had little power in the Western Regions. ”

Zhao Zi said: "The marshal specially explained that in addition to the Uighurs, there were also many Sogdians in Gaochang City. Here in the Western Regions, the Sogdians were good scribes and traders, and unless they were determined to fight with the Uighurs, they had to protect them. When the Western Regions are recovered, they will still be needed. ”

Cui Dutian said: "Doing business, being a scribe, we Han people have people, why do we need Sogdians?" ”

Zhao Zi said: "What do you know. The Sogdians were a large ethnic group in this area, not only in the Western Regions, but also in the rivers. They had to take refuge in order to open up trade routes. If it wasn't for the trade route, why did the festival marshal rush to attack Gaochang? Isn't it that after we occupied the Hequ Road, Gaochang closed the trade route and did not allow merchants to come from Yizhou, but to take the Khitan Shangjing Road? On this east-west trade route, the Sogdians were the main force and should be put to good use. ”

Qin Youpeng said: "If they don't say it, who knows who it is?" I don't know who it is, and how to protect it? ”

Zhao Zi said: "Where are there so many whys!" When you siege the city, fight hard! When the city is breached, let all the cities be in good order, and do not rob the people. The rest of the things will be dealt with by the marshal. Remember, the most important thing is not to harass the people when you enter the city! Those who dare to violate this article will be severely punished! Deputy Envoy Zhang also came to supervise this matter. ”

Seeing that Zhao Zi said harshly, the generals hurriedly crossed their hands and said yes.

Zhao Zi looked at everyone and said, "It has been more than two years since Hue crossed the first battle, and I haven't been in battle again. In the past two years, the army has been reorganized, many people have left, and more people have come. What is the combat power, this battle will be clear! In the battle of Hequ, we won consecutive battles, and neither Khitan nor Dangxiang were our opponents. More than two years after the war, there was no more fighting. Why? Because the military exploits prove that the soldiers we have trained in Suizhou are the most capable of fighting in the world, and the whole army must be trained according to the whole. However, the results of the whole training were not satisfactory. Do you remember? Just a few months after the training, a drill in the capital, Zhang Yu led the troops to a great victory, and the imperial court sent many ministers to the Wudu Military Academy on Hequ Road. It's just that when they arrived at Hequ Road that time, they couldn't do a good job of the military academy in the capital, so they had to do so. This time in the Western Regions, if we fight well, the imperial court will have confidence! ”

Cui Dutian said: "The general said this, isn't it that Gao Chang has won, and there will be more wars in the future?" ”

Zhao Zi smiled: "At least now that the conditions are in place, it should be time to attack the party." It's just that there is no whole army training, the forbidden army is still the previous forbidden army, and after the railway is repaired to the Zhenrong army, it is actually time to attack the party. If we fight well in the Western Regions, I guess we should concentrate our forces and attack the party next. When the railway was built to Yizhou, didn't it happen to attack Shazhou from the west? ”

The real rival of the Song Dynasty was the Khitan, followed by the party, and Gaochang was actually easy to fight. When the railway is built to Yizhou, first, it can reopen the east-west trade route, and secondly, it can attack the Hexi counties of the party from the west.

Since the late Tang Dynasty, many years of war, Hexi's population has lost a large number of people, and now it can't support the army. After the annihilation of the White Horse Supervision Military Division, the party had less than 50,000 people in several counties in Hexi, and there were only more than 10,000 regular soldiers. The Song army turned back from Yizhou and attacked Guazhou and Shazhou, which was regarded as an attack on the weak land.

Du Zhongxiao led his troops to attack Gaochang, in addition to opening the Western Regions trade route, but also opened another channel for the Song Dynasty to attack the party. Only by destroying the party and the Khitan can the Song army really expand outward, and there will be no worries from then on.

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