From Yong'an Prefecture to the sea, it was smooth sailing at sea. Two days after landing, Qinzhou was breached, and three days later, Lianzhou was breached. On the eleventh day, Li Changjie left part of the troops that were still looting his children's gold silk in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, and led 20,000 elites to stand under the city of Yongzhou, and joined forces with Zongjia, who led the army to take the land route north.

On the day of arrival in Yongzhou, the assistant lieutenant of Jiaozhi was dressed in military uniform, accompanied by the generals, and looked at the city wall more than 200 steps away and as high as four zhang.

Li Changjie's figure is different from the men who are only five feet tall around him, he is more than six feet tall, and his appearance can be regarded as handsome, but the bridge of his nose is slightly hooked, which looks a little yin.

"It's a pity that I can't get any closer." Li Changjie narrowed his slender eyes, carefully looked at the armor placed on the city for a while, turned around and asked, "Is the Divine Arm Bow really so powerful?" ”

When Zong Yan heard this, his face changed. It is because of the existence of the Divine Arm Bow that Li Changjie and him can't go any further, and the soldiers below can still reach half a mile below the city, but they are all commanders, and they can't risk their lives.

Moreover, the power and range of the Divine Arm Bow were also exchanged for the lives of his soldiers at the cost of blood.

Li Changjie attacked Qinzhou from the sea, while Zong Kang led the army by land. After crossing the Fuliang River from Thang Long Province to the north, he captured Yongping Village and Taiping Village all the way, and captured the ancient Wanzhai that had just been plundered. Lianke Duozhai, the harvest is quite rich, and the combined forces of Jiaozhi and Guangyuan Prefecture are in full swing for a while. When he arrived outside Yongzhou City, he didn't take a break, and went directly to the city gate to kill.

It's not that they can't see the thick walls of Yongzhou City, but that the previous few stockades opened the city by themselves without much resistance, which made them all think that as long as the army drove to the city, the defenders in Yongzhou City would kill the commander of the city, and obediently open the city gate and surrender out of the city.

In order to be the first to enter the city, he made a good fortune in the world of Yongzhou City, and several barbarians fought for it, fighting for the order of attacking the city.

But who would have thought that Yongzhou City would greet them with a rain of arrows as dense as flying locusts. Eight hundred divine arms and bows fired in unison, and a buzzing bowstring sounded. In just a few rounds of shooting, more than 400 barbarians who flaunted their might under the city turned into hedgehogs.

And the handsome Shen Jingfu, who led the army at the front, was wearing a helmet and armor, and he was still shot through. The cluster of arrows even pierced deep into the skull, and it took half a day of exertion to pull it out of the corpse.

This defeat almost made the coalition forces that did not agree with each other scatter, and the most reluctant Zong Jian was helpless, and retreated seven or eight miles in one breath before he dared to set up camp, and he did not dare to attack the city for two days. It wasn't until Li Changjie led the army to come that the momentum regained and entered the city of Yongzhou again.

"The divine arm bow is a divine weapon used by the Song people to fight against the party and the Khitan, and when they are caught off guard, even if they are Khitan iron horses, they still can't be guarded against. This small setback is not the fault of Captain Zong. ”

The voice came from behind him, and Zong Ji immediately turned around. It was a young man dressed in scholar's costume, with his head raised in a pretentious manner. In terms of appearance, at first glance, it does not look like a Yue person, but a Han person.

The Han man came with Li Changjie, and Zong Jian didn't ask in detail. Now that he had opened his mouth to interject, the scholar stepped forward and saluted to Zong Yan: "Xu Baixiang pays a visit to Captain Zong." ”

"You are Xu Baixiang." Zong Kang's eyes narrowed.

He had heard of this name, because he had repeatedly tried and failed in the Song State and submitted a letter to the country, in which he said that the Song State wanted to destroy Jiaozhi in a big way, and the art of war was cloudy: 'The ancestors have the heart to win people', so it is better to raise troops first, and please respond internally.

Although a letter that is not the best talent cannot affect the strategic planning of the Jiaozhi Imperial Court, the so-called internal should be a joke. But he also played a role in the decision to advance northward.

Zong Yan stared at Xu Baixiang up and down for a while, his black face gradually thawed, and he turned into a smile: "I heard that there was a talent in the Song Kingdom in the past, who voted for Yuanhao of Western Xia, and sat in the position of the Taishi at the back." I don't know if there is such a person? ”

"This person's name is Zhang Yuan." Xu Baixiang Zong knew what he wanted to say, and his mood rose: "Because he failed repeatedly, he was angry and joined Western Xia. Yuan Hao can crisscross the Western Regions, and he has a lot of strength. When it comes to the use of soldiers, Han Qi and his ilk are far from being their opponents. ”

Xu Baixiang empathized with Zhang Yuan's experience, he was conceited and talented, and he had a strategy, but he never got an official position. Since he doesn't have eyes up and down the court, and the pearls are missing, don't blame him for taking refuge in Jiaozhi.

Zong Gan Ha Ha Da Lu smiled: "Zhang Yuan can be the Taishi of Western Xia, if you vote for Dayue, you may not be able to be like Zhang Yuan." ”

Xu Baixiang bowed his head slightly, "Thank you Taiwei for your love." ”

After only saying a few words of gossip, people took Xu Baixiang down to rest, and Zong Yan restrained a smile on his face. Xu Baixiang's attitude of a sleeping dragon and phoenix chick made him very uncomfortable to watch. The dog who betrayed the lord still dared to be so arrogant, and he should kneel down and shout long live the mountain to be grateful.

Zong Yan snorted twice, and pouted at Xu Baixiang's back: "Listening to this big tone, it seems that I have some confidence in capturing Yongzhou City." Did you say anything? ”

"Nothing, and I didn't ask." Li Changjie smiled slightly, "The so-called selling at a price is probably waiting for us to beg him." If we had begged him to come to him after we had met under the city of Yongzhou, he would probably have been a little happier. ”

Zong Kang's eyes showed a fierce light: "Just take a knife and stomp on a few fingers of him, see if he says anything!" ”

"Why do you have to do that!? In Yongzhou City, even the forbidden army, the belt army, and the Xidong gunner, there were a total of more than a dozen commanders. But you also know the military strength of the Song people, and you don't know how much of the empty salary you eat, in fact, there are only two or three thousand soldiers at most. Nong Zhigao only had a few people when he captured Yongzhou City, but we added up to 70,000 soldiers! Can't you capture a mere Yongzhou city?! ”

On the shore of the surging Zuojiang River, Li Changjie and Zong Jian pointed to Yongzhou City and discussed how to break this strong city in southern Xinjiang. Yongzhou City is high and deep, and it is indeed not so easy to take down. But the number of people is the key, Li Changjie and Zong Jia, and the food they got from Qinzhou, Lianzhou, Taipingzhai and Yongpingzhai was enough to sustain tens of thousands of troops for two months of fighting.

"However, Guizhou [now Guilin] will definitely send reinforcements, and Liu Yi does not dare to sit idly by." Zong Jian said in a deep voice, "You have to go and block Kunlun Pass." ”

Li Changjie sneered: "Back then, Nong Zhigao was too careless and let Di Qing rush through Kunlun Pass overnight, so that he could only fight a decisive battle at Quy Nhon Pu on the edge of Yongzhou City. Otherwise, it would never have been defeated so quickly. ”

"There is also a text for the battle, and it must be publicized as soon as possible."

"Then it is necessary to say that the name is correct and can be smooth," Li Changjie laughed, "'I hear that the Lord of Song is mediocre and does not follow the holy model; Listen to Anshi's greedy and evil schemes, and be the department of the young seedlings' assistants, so that the people will be anointed with fat and the land, and they will enrich their own schemes......"

Li Changjie thinks this paragraph every time he thinks about it.

“…… This post is ordered by the king to direct the way to the north, wanting to clear the waves of demons, and there is a division of the land, but no intention of dividing the people. To sweep away the filth of the filth, Ge Yao Tian enjoys the good time of Shun Ri, I will send troops today, and I will save the ......"

This inscription was not for the emperor and prime minister in Kaifeng City, but for the Song people to understand whose fault it was in this battle.

"We're the king!"

A shrill horn interrupted their discussion. When I looked up, I saw two fast boats approaching along the river. The sound of the alarm horn came from the front, and the soldiers stationed at the front were desperately rushing back.

"It's Song Jun!"

"How dare they go out of town?!"

Without waiting for Li Changjie and Zong Jian to be surprised a few more words, Song Jun on the two ships saw that there were many people here, so they rushed straight over. He raised the Divine Arm Bow from a distance of only thirty paces.

The besieging city was up and down, where was there any defense against the counterattack of the Song people, and as soon as the ship came, it hurriedly ran backwards. As soon as he turned around and saw the crossbow on the boat, he hurriedly threw Li Changjie and Zong Kang's personal guards and generals to the ground.

"Captain, be careful!"

Li Changjie's head was smothered on the ground, and the damp earthy smell on the bank of the river filled his nose and mouth. The arrows swished on his head, and he heard the muffled screams after entering the flesh in his ears. After the crossbowmen on the two fast boats fired a round, they immediately let the boats go down the river and headed straight for Yongzhou City. The Jiaozhi troops, who had come to their senses, rushed to the shore one after another, opened their bows and fired angrily at them, but the boat was light and urgent, and in a blink of an eye, it entered the moat and entered Yongzhou City through the water gate.

Li Changjie stood up with the support of his guards, wiped two handfuls on his face, and looked at Zong Yan, who was also covered with sludge. Li Changjie's heart was full of anger, and suddenly the people around him looked at him with wrong eyes, and they all aimed at his waist.

When I looked down, I saw a crossbow bolt pierced into my waist. Li Changjie's heart was cold at first, and when he looked at it fixedly, he breathed a sigh of relief. Raised his hand and pulled out the arrow, the arrow cluster had already penetrated the armor leaf, if it weren't for the mountain armor worth a thousand gold, replaced by leather armor, the arrow that hit the kidney gate could kill him.

"Yuanfu! Timon! ”

The palpitations and luck in my heart have not yet subsided, and a crying voice sounded around me again. Li Changjie followed the sound and looked over, and he took the two generals around him to open their eyes at this time, as dull as a dead fish, and the short arrows in his body were all pierced in the vital places, and he was already out of breath.

The green tendons on Li Changjie's forehead jumped down and down, staring at the city wall of Yongzhou, and his face became hideous.

"Captain, let's attack the city!"

"Kill all the Han dogs in the city!"

The people who rushed up to ask for the battle were all the elites brought by Li Changjie. Li Changjie swept his eyes around, and saw that none of the handsome people in Guangyuan Prefecture came out to speak, although Zong Jian had a cold face, he didn't say anything.

"Of course." Li Changjie's face calmed down, and he smiled like a cold winter, "But we have to follow the steps, first divert the water from the moat and fill in the trenches, so that we can attack the city!" ”