"What? Van Buchen?! Listening to Enji's words, Fugu Huaien stood up suddenly.

After walking a few steps back and forth on the side of the desk, Fugu Huaien turned around and said sharply: "I, Gaochang, have never been a minister to the Great Song Dynasty-"

Yuanzhi said: "The king, a few decades ago, he once sent an envoy to Kaifeng Mansion. Not to mention, there is also Wang Yande's visit. ”

Fugu Huaien choked for a moment, thought for a while, and said: "That's just to do business with the Song Dynasty, and the text is polite!" Even according to that time, we and the Song Dynasty were also the country of nephews, not vassals! ”

Yuanzhi sighed: "King, now that the city is besieged with heavy troops, what's the use of saying this?" Du Jieshuai said that the king surrendered earlier, and he became a rich man in the second half of his life. If the city is broken, then—"

Speaking of this, Yuanzhi said: "If the poor monk just brings back Du Jieshuai, what the king does, can be self-determined." ”

Fugu Huai'en had a black face, and was silent for a while before he said, "The master has worked hard all the way, so go back and rest early." ”

Enji folded his hands and bowed, and withdrew. He had a temple in the city, and when he returned to the temple, he did not have to mix in political affairs.

Fugu Huaien looked up at the eaves and was silent for a long time. Finally, he sighed and instructed the guards to bring in Fuguchen and Longluo Dusha.

After the two arrived, they each sat down, and Fu Gu Huaien said: "Yuanzhi Dutong has returned, and he saw Du Zhongxiao, the envoy of Hequ Road, and brought back Du Zhongxiao's words. The Song Dynasty came to attack for two reasons. First, after the Song Dynasty occupied Juyan and Yizhou, we did not send envoys, which was a crime of disobedience. Second, after Shengzhou opened a freight yard, Gaochang did not allow Shangjia to go to Shengzhou via Yizhou and Juyan, and had different intentions——"

Hearing this, Long Luo Dusha shouted, "What is the reason for this? We are Gaochang, there is the Song Dynasty, and we are not subordinate to each other! ”

Fugu Huaien said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter what we think, the important thing is that the Song Dynasty decided that we don't keep the courtesy, and the army is coming, and we can't kill the ministers!" Vabuchen, for decades, we have been paying tribute to the Khitan, and the Song Dynasty is actually right. But the problem is that in the past two or three hundred years, it has been the Central Plains that has been sluggish, not that we have different intentions! It is too much to use this as an excuse to march into the army and destroy the country! ”

Fu Guchen said: "King, in my opinion, the Song army is just using this as an excuse. Now that the army is besieging the city, we really can't do anything, it's not like they just say anything! Whether it's a war or anything, isn't the most important thing that we can't break through now? ”

Fugu Huaien reluctantly closed his eyes, opened them after a while, and said, "Yes, the most important thing is that we can't beat it." ”

Long Luo Dusha looked at the no good injuries on his body, so he had to shut up. I led my troops out of the city, and I didn't even hurt a single Song army, and I lost nearly a thousand people, what do you have to say? What is not a minister, it is nothing more than the Song army relying on the strength of the army to annex Gaochang.

There was silence for a moment. After a long while, Fugu Huai'en said, "The question now is, can we descend or not?" ”

Long Luo Dusha stood up abruptly and said in a loud voice: "King, there are nearly 10,000 soldiers in the city, who can fight with the Song army, how can they surrender?!" ”

Fugu Huaien looked at the injuries on Long Luo Dusha's body, and said lightly: "What about the nearly 10,000 soldiers? Can you go out of the city and fight? ”

Long Luodu was speechless, so he had to sit down slowly, feeling extremely aggrieved in his heart. In the past, I fought bravely, relying on myself, and I have never been so cowardly. The Song army outside the city will not fight with you hand-to-hand at all, and when they come, they will fire artillery, and they can't even get close to their military formation. How will this battle be fought?

Fugu Huaien looked at Fugu Chen, and said: "Yu Yue, Gaochang is under your rule, can you surrender now?" ”

The servant Guchen pondered for a long time before he said: "According to the subordinates, there is no chance of winning the war, the king, it is better to surrender." ”

Fugu Huaien said: "Descended? Two hundred years of foundation, just like this? How do I give an account to my fathers and fathers? ”

The servant was a little helpless: "What if you don't surrender?" Not to mention the heavy siege of the city now, the Song army still has more artillery, which can't stop them. Originally, I thought that we would hold on to Gaochang and that reinforcements from Yanqi and Beiting would come, but now there is no hope. The road to Beiting in the north and the road to Yanqi in the south have all been occupied by the Song army, and reinforcements will not come at all-"

Speaking of this, Fu Guchen sighed heavily: "And to be honest, even if the reinforcements are coming, can they beat the Song army?" The day before yesterday, General Longluo led his troops to battle, and before he even arrived at the Song army's military formation, he was beaten back by a burst of artillery fire, how could such a battle be fought? ”

Fugu Huaien was speechless. This is the most embarrassing thing for him, there are nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in his city, and he is a very powerful force in the Western Regions, but he can't fight with the Song army at all. The artillery of the Song army has blocked the city gate, and if you want, you can make it impossible for the soldiers and horses in the city to leave the city. Knowing this, it would have been better to go out of the city to fight them when the Song army first came, and it would not be so passive.

Entering the era of artillery, the siege and siege are no longer the same as before, and there is still a chance to go out of the city to kill the enemy. There are only a few gates in the city, and the opponent's artillery is blocked, and even the city can't get out. Unless there is artillery in the city, you can go farther and force the opponent's artillery away.

The servant said: "If we don't surrender, we can only defend to the death." The problem is that the Song army has artillery, and it is difficult to say whether it can open the city gate or even knock down the city wall. If we want to try, what will happen after the city is broken, then we can imagine it. ”

As soon as the Puchang city gate was breached, the city lord led people to surrender. After the fall, everything was fine, the city lord just lost his position, and he could still be a citizen with peace of mind. It's just that Song Jun didn't allow him to stay in Puchang. Liuzhong is different, the city lord held on, and finally the city was broken, most of the soldiers and horses in the city died in battle, and those who did not die also became prisoners of war. The prisoners of war were criminals, and the Song army gathered them together, not knowing what they wanted them to do.

This is the helpless place where the army of the old era is helpless in the face of the new military generation, which is even more embarrassing than the Qing army in history. When the Qing army faced the invasion of foreign enemies, it had been in contact with firearms for hundreds of years, and it was no stranger, but the army could not fight. The current Gaochang has never been in contact with firearms before, but the Song army who came here is equipped with firearms, and there is no possibility of fighting at all, but he is only passively beaten.

Fugu Huaien slapped the table heavily: "Why is this happening! Gaochang has been established for more than 200 years, how can there ever be such a time! ”

Fu Guchen and Long Luo Dusha glanced at each other, and each shook his head slightly. Before the Song army came, the important ministers and high-ranking officials of the Gao Chang State thought very highly of themselves, believing that within one or two decades, the Song army would not have the strength to pass through the Western Regions. When Song Jun came, he realized how wrong he was.

Standing up, he paced back and forth in the room. After a long while, he turned around and said, "I am really unwilling to surrender like this!" ”

Long Luodu Sha said: "King, why don't I lead my troops out of the city tomorrow and fight with the Song army?" ”

Fugu Huaien shook his head: "I have already fought the day before yesterday, it is useless, there is no need to go out of the city to make Song Jun laugh." I am the lord of a country, and it is ominous to surrender. In this way, tomorrow we will watch the Song army outside the city together, and watch them besiege the weak places. If there is an opportunity, take the soldiers and horses in the city and kill them! After leaving the city, avoid the white water and climb over the Tianshan Mountains to the North Garden! ”

Long Luo Dusha was shocked when he heard this: "To do this, you are giving up your foundation in the Western Regions!" Gaochang has 10,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 20,000 people in Yanqi, which is our foundation. Without these more than 30,000 troops, there are not many people in the area of Beiting and Zhangbali! ”

Fugu Huaien said: "Is there any way? The Song army of nearly 100,000 people has already occupied all the remaining cities in Gaochang, where can we maintain such a large army! Beiting is north of the desert, and the Song army is attacking, so we will flee to the desert! ”

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