Li Foma sat on the throne, his face was calm, he didn't speak, and quietly listened to Li Renyi tell about the situation of the battle of Langzhou, and how Xu Ping said to himself and why he let himself back.

In the end, Li Renyi said: "Xu Ping, the commander of the Song Army, is just a young man in his early twenties, and he has the current situation by great luck. According to my little thoughts, he made a lot of pretentiousness in front of me, thinking that he wanted to separate our monarchs and ministers and reap the benefits. ”

Li Foma was neither angry nor happy, but just looked at Li Renyi calmly and motioned for him to continue.

Li Renyi only felt that his scalp was numb, and Li Foma was a scheming person, and his joy and anger were invisible. The two have been together for so many years, and Li Renyi knows deeply that now his expression is that he has become suspicious of himself and no longer trusts him unconditionally as before. Afterwards, he may have nothing to do, or he may be thrown into the abyss, and no one can guess the emperor's mind.

When he succeeded to the throne that year, there was a "rebellion of the three kings", and Li Foma not only succeeded in ascending to the throne, but also won the reputation of benevolence and righteousness, and quickly took care of the other brothers. It's not already arranged, where can it be so neat? But in the eyes of others, Li Foma values love and righteousness, and is extremely benevolent.

Li Renyi stubbornly continued: "According to my small thoughts, when the Song army put us back, they must have had strange intentions, and wanted to have internal strife in the Shenglong Mansion, and they would do a fluke again. ”

"Oh, then you say, will the Song army come to attack the Shenglong Mansion?"

Li Renyi replied cautiously: "In my small opinion, the Song army will not withdraw immediately, but it will not dare to cross the Fuliang River, and it will be on the other side to see the movements in our city." ”

Li Foma smiled at Li Renyi: "Why do you say that? The tens of thousands of troops in my Jiaozhi have been defeated by the Song army, and now there are only 5,000 soldiers in the city, why don't they take advantage of the situation to attack the city? ”

"The city of Thang Long is strong, and the pond is deep. It's not comparable to a small frontier city, how can a Song army of 10,000 or 20,000 people be able to break through such a big city? Once we are under the fortified city, and we have the troops in other places to fight in time, then the Song army will face our internal and external attacks, and the offensive and defensive positions will change! ”

Li Foma smiled heartily: "Well said. The Song army attacked the city, but it gave us the opportunity to turn defeat into victory. Well said, it seems that we can sit back and relax and ignore those Song people! ”

At this moment, an attendant rushed in quickly and saluted Li Foma: "Holy Lord, just now the general who guards the city has come to report that the Song army has crossed the Fuliang River!" ”

"Aren't all the ferries watched? How did they cross the river? ”

Liverma stood up abruptly and glared at the attendant who had entered.

"Yes - they had cavalry cross the river from upstream. Then he went down the coast and took the ferry......"

Li Fuma snorted coldly and said to the inner attendant: "Order someone to find out where the cavalry of the Song army crossed the river from, and wait until after this battle-"

Speaking of which, Li Foma is already murderous.

The chamberlain responded to the promise with trepidation, and cautiously withdrew.

Li Renyi stared at the back of the waiter going out, and his heart was completely cold. He had always been in charge of the affairs of the palace. He knew all the chamberlains with a nod face, and the person who came in now. He could see clearly that it was he who had been punished before. It was clear that Li Foma had changed the people in the palace and cleaned up his own power. After this war, no matter what the outcome is, he will no longer have his pre-menstrual status.

Come to think of it. His Li Renyi's righteous son Li Mingxin went to Langzhou to supervise the army, but the main general Chen Changji was killed in battle, and Li Mingxin ran back alone. Then he was replaced by Li Renyi to supervise the army, and the main general Li Fengxiao died there again, but he was inexplicably released by the Song army. Li Foma still believed that he was the hell.

Being able to talk to Li Renyi here well, or is Li Foma worried that he has too many henchmen inside and outside the DPRK, and a sudden deal will cause turmoil, there are many scruples at this time.

Turning around, Li Fuma said to Li Renyi kindly: "You have also worked hard along the way, go down and rest well." Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and as long as we are careful, everything will be fine. ”

Li Renyi wanted to go back, but he was still unwilling to think about it, and said to Li Fuma carefully: "Now, the most important thing is to let the generals who are leading the troops quickly return to King Qinwang of Longfu, I don't know if the saint has arranged someone to order?" ”

Li Foma smiled: "A little thing, I won't waste your heart, now you just need to rest, I don't know how many big things will be borrowed from you in the future!" ”

Li Renyi sighed in his heart and had no choice but to retire. I hope that I can turn evil into good fortune this time, with years of understanding of Li Foma, and the means I have tempered in the palace, there will always be a day when I will make a comeback.

After crossing the Fuliang River, only a few dozen miles away from Shenglong Mansion, Xu Ping took his men and horses to rest for a while, and then rushed straight to the city of Shenglong Mansion. At the same time, he ordered Gao Daquan and Han Daocheng to lead his cavalry to sweep around Shenglong Mansion, first pull out all the outlying strongholds, and at the same time block the internal and external connections of Jiaozhi Wangcheng.

Thang Long Mansion was built in the former Tang Dynasty as the seat of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, and its name was changed repeatedly until Li Gongyun moved the royal city from the downstream Chang'an Mansion to here, and then changed its name to Thang Long Mansion.

Before the name change, Thang Long Province was called Da Luo City. It is called Luocheng, naturally there is a distinction between the inner and outer cities, the inner city is the essence of the city, and all the forbidden palaces, official mansions, princes and nobles live in the inner city. In the outer city, there are many people and merchants. By this time, Thang Long Mansion, as the royal city of Cochin, had become the most prosperous place in Cochin during the Li Gongyun and Li Foma dynasties.

In terms of regulation, Shenglong Mansion is actually somewhat similar to Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, of course, it does not have that scale, but it is also a rare prosperous city in this foreign barbarian state.

Looking at the tall city wall in front of him, Xu Ping said to Sang Yi beside him: "We don't have to be busy, and we didn't bring any siege equipment, and this city is firmly built, and now there is no other way to think of it, but to forcibly blow up the city with gunpowder." Let's go, let's walk around the city and see where to start. ”

Daluo City was built by Gao Biao, the capital of Annan in the Tang Dynasty to defend against the invasion of Nanzhao, and the Nanzhao at that time was not as powerful as Xu Ping now, they were besieging the city for many months, so the city was built quite strongly. In particular, all the main city gates are built with urn cities, and you can't blow up the city gates.

There is a moat outside the city, which is connected to the West Lake, the number one attraction in Thang Long Province, and although the water of the moat is not too deep, it is impossible to wade through it on foot.

According to convention, the first step in a siege is to fill in the river, after which various siege methods can be used. But the moat of Thang Long Mansion is living water, and it is not easy to fill, not to mention that Xu Ping does not have time to fill the river.

After looking around with Sang Yi, Xu Ping said with a smile: "Jiaozhi people really learn from my Great Song Dynasty everywhere, and even this royal city is like Kaifeng Mansion." I see that the northwest corner of the inner city is sparsely populated, and there are not many soldiers guarding it, so it is better to start from there! ”

Sang Yi nodded and said, "That's it!" Blowing up the city wall, our soldiers must rush in as quickly as possible, if the gap is blocked by the Cochins, it will be wasted! Not only are there few soldiers in the northwest corner, but it is also inconvenient to transfer troops to other places, which is the most suitable for us! ”

The northwest part of Kaifeng Prefecture is sparsely populated, and the city is similar to the suburbs, and there are even large vegetable fields. However, Kaifeng is affected by the imperial city and the city gate line, but this Shenglong Mansion does not know what the reason is, and the population in the northwest is not large, which is more desolate than the northwest of Kaifeng City.

After choosing a place, Sang Yi went to arrange manpower, and Xu Ping rode alone on a horse to look at Shenglong Mansion.

This is a real treasure land, although it is located in Lingnan, but the four seasons are distinct, the miasma can not afford, the Central Plains Dynasty operates Jiaozhi, and has chosen this place as the center and the fundamental place. Thousands of years of operation, there are many Central Plains people left over from the past dynasties around Thang Long Mansion, and they live together in clans, which is also a major force. It's just that since the late Tang Dynasty, without the support of the Central Plains Dynasty and the mountains and rivers, these Central Plains people have slowly become local aborigines. According to the Song Dynasty, these Central Plains people have become Han barbarians.

More or less for this reason, when Jiaozhi had just become independent from the Central Plains Dynasty, the royal city had always been located in Hualu, which was located downstream, that is, Chang'an Mansion. When Li Gongyun ascended the throne, one was his own grand plan, and the other was that the power left over from the previous dynasty in Chang'an Mansion was deep-rooted, so he moved the royal city back to the hometown of the Annan Protectorate.

If controlling Langzhou is to open the door to the south of Cochin, then Thang Long Mansion is the heart of Cochin, and controlling this place can be regarded as controlling Cochin.

Seeing that it was almost evening, Xu Ping returned to the barracks for dinner, and then went to the Chinese military tent.

Sang Yi came in happily from outside and said to Xu Ping: "Yunxing, you would never have imagined what the people who brought food this afternoon brought us!" ”

Xu Ping smiled: "Artillery, I let them transport it." ”

Sang Yi sat down and smiled: "It turned out that you ordered it, I still think it's strange, when did these soldiers open their minds!" With artillery, we can place a few cannons in the south of the city to attract the soldiers defending the city in Jiaozhi, and then blow up the city walls with gunpowder! ”

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment: "The guns I dragged here are not for this!" It was not easy to transport, and all the people who were transported here were light and small cannons, and they could not open the city gates. Originally, I thought that after the bombing of the city, in order to prevent the gap from being plugged by the troops in Jiaozhi, we would first use artillery bombardment for a few rounds, and then our talents would rush in. ”

"Hey, it doesn't matter if he can't open it, we know, where do the cochin people know? As long as we bring their main force to the south of the city, we will have a lot less trouble entering the city. As for the collapse of the city wall, there is no need to worry about the Jiaozhi people coming to plug the gap, I have already arranged for the construction of a pontoon bridge over the moat as soon as the city wall is blown up. How many people are defending the city in Cochin? How dare you outnumber us with more people! ”

"It's up to you to arrange, march and fight, or you're doing it."

Xu Ping's concern now is not about this problem, but about how much gunpowder the soldiers can bury after crossing the river, and whether this gunpowder can blow up the city wall. Although the city wall of Thang Long Mansion is far less solid than the city wall in the north of the Great Song Dynasty due to the relationship between climate and geographical environment, it is a big city in the end, and it is not so easy to blow up. (To be continued.) )