Yang Shousu's words aroused Li Liangzuo's great attention, although Liaodong is currently outside the territory of the Western Xia Kingdom, but Li Liangzuo has long regarded it as his own cyst, Li Liangzuo does not want a strong force to dominate the Northeast, which is not in the interests of the Great Xia Kingdom, and now it is obvious that some of the actions of the Boliao State have touched Li Liangzuo's bottom line.
Li Liangzuo left his dragon chair and stood in front of a map of the distribution of various forces around the Great Xia Kingdom, including the thirty-seven vassal states in the northeast, Li Liangzuo was quiet in front of the map for a long time, Li Liangzuo was thinking about whether to allow Gao Wei to carry out the plan, although Gao Wei's plan can bring enough benefits to the Great Xia Kingdom, but the risk is also very large, and if you don't get the entire Great Xia Kingdom wrong, you may even lose the nominal Liaodong.
Li Liangzuo finally made up his mind, walked back to the dragon chair and sat down, and wrote on the top of Gao Wei's recital, you must be cautious, the red number one is top secret; Li Liangzuo handed this letter to Xiao Fuzi, and Xiao Fuzi immediately carried this piece of music into his arms, and then Li Liangzuo wrote on a blank piece of paper that I have known what Qing has reported, and I must be careful about the actions of the quasi-Qing, and I am waiting for the good news of Qing.
After Li Liangzuo finished writing, he dried the ink and then put it in an envelope, sealed it with fire paint, and then handed it to Xiaofuzi and said: "Send this letter to Liaodong and hand it over to Gao Aiqing, and there must be no mistakes on the way." ” "Yes, the minion understands."
Xiao Fuzi immediately received the military order.
After Xiaofuzi left, Li Liangzuo said to Yang Shousu: "Yang Aiqing, I don't want a little rumor to be revealed outside about this matter. ” "Yes, Wechen understands, Wechen retires."
Yang Shousu saluted Li Liangzuo and said.
Speaking of the two brothers Li Bingchang and Li Wu, Xijing City has been breached by the Xia army for several days, and the embankment has been repaired; When the Xia army organized the dredging and construction of the embankment, at the same time in the Xijing City wantonly looted, as long as everything that could be taken away, because it was soaked in the water, the rest of the grain and grass and weapons were soaked in seawater, the grain and grass were basically inedible, the bows and crossbows were abolished, and the knives, guns and sticks could still be used.
In the Xijing Palace of the King of Goryeo in Xijing, Li Bingchang and Li Wu brothers stationed the camp here, and the Xijing Palace was built quite well, although the sparrows were small but had all the organs; On the top of the main hall of the Xijing Palace, Li Wu said to Li Bingchang: "Brother, are you supposed to organize a group of servant troops for us?"
"Servant Army," Li Bingchang said with a frown; "We don't plan to occupy it for a long time, is this necessary?"
Li Wu continued to explain to Li Bingchang: "Brother, we are now short of troops, and if we want to continue the attack in the south, we need someone to guard the back road for us, and these servant troops are mainly to maintain social order." ” Li Bingchang said with some concern: "If they are given weapons, what if they rebel, you must know that their relatives who died in our hands are not good." ” "That's a problem."
Li Wu touched his chin and said; "Yes, where can the servant army use weapons to give each of them a wooden stick, and when the time comes, send them some food, isn't it over giving two rewards?"
"Okay, just do as you say," Li Bingchang finally agreed.
Li Wu said with a smile: "Brother, I don't think we need to do this matter ourselves, don't I have a group of Boliao officers under my command This matter will be handed over to them, it is appropriate for these people to dare to do this kind of thing." ” Under Li Wu's arrangement, a Goryeo servant army was formed by the Boliao officers who had originally taken refuge, and the number of the army was not very large, only a thousand people, and the task of this thousand people was to guard the Xijing City and its surrounding areas, and they were not given weapons, but each person was issued with a large wooden stick, so this army was called the Stick Army by the Xia Army, and Li Wu probably did not know that one of his unexpected actions actually brought a nickname Goryeo stick to the people who lived in this territory in the future; To say that the servant army formed by Li Wu can be regarded as the right formation, this stick army is even more ruthless to the people of Goryeo than the Xia army, and has become a veritable dog of the Xia army.
The formation of the stick army made Li Bingchang and Li Wu have no worries, Li Bingchang and Li Wu two brothers led 8,000 cavalry to begin to divide their troops to the south, the two brothers each led 4,000 cavalry from the east and west sides into a pincer offensive to prepare to flank the royal city of Goryeo Kaijing, Li Wu led the army from the western coast to the south, Li Bingchang led the army from the edge of the eastern plain to the south, the two armies went straight to Kaijing to kill it, the Xia army attacked the city all the way, and the Goryeo defenders at this time had been frightened and fell into the wind.
From Xijing to Kaijing is more than 300 miles, the Xia army fought all the way to Kaijing in only four days to kill under the city of Kaijing, which shows what kind of situation the Goryeo defenders along the way are, this is not to blame these Goryeo defenders, the elite Goryeo soldiers and horses are in the Yalu River defense line, these troops left behind are just recruited some young people, that is, a group of farmers who have just put down their hoes, expecting them to fight is in vain, it is a good thing to see the Xia army not pee their pants.
Li Bingchang's marching route was closer to arrive at noon on the fourth day, when Li Bingchang first arrived, Yiwen Zhide saw that the Xia army did not have many soldiers and horses, so he organized the Imperial Forest Army guarding Kaijing to go out of the city and fight with the Xia army, but Li Bingchang was defeated and fled back to the city, and Yiwen Zhide, who was cowering in the city, closed the city gate and no longer dared to go out of the city to fight with the Xia army; On the other side, the 4,000 cavalry led by Li Wu did not arrive until late in the evening, and the marching route chosen by Li Wu was much farther than Li Bingchang's.
"Brother, how is the situation?"
Li Wu asked Li Bingchang.
Li Bingchang said to Li Wu: "It's not bad, there was a big battle with the Goryeo defenders at noon, and more than 1,000 of them were killed, how is the situation on your side?"
"What else, as soon as I heard the word Xia Jun, I directly opened the city and surrendered."
Li Wu said helplessly.
"This Kaijing is not as good as Xijing, if it is attacked, I am afraid that it will lose a lot of soldiers and horses."
Li Bingchang said to Li Wu.
Li Wu nodded and said: "So we can't storm it, it's best to let the Goryeo people take the initiative to open the city and surrender, after all, we are not here to destroy the Goryeo Kingdom." ” In the palace of the king of Goryeo in the royal city of Kaijing, the king of Goryeo Wang Hui was anxious like ants on a hot pot, the prince Wang Xun, the leader Cheng Shi Li, and the general Ewen Zhide were all there, and Wang Hui said angrily to the three of them: "Tell me, what should we do now?"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, there are Weichen who will never break through the capital in the Xia army."
Yiwen Zhide assured Wang Hui.
Cheng Shili stood up and said: "Your Majesty, now that the Xia army has come to the city, although the Xia army has not many troops and cannot break through Kaijing, but once the Xia army reinforcements arrive, it will be troublesome, and I have no strength to fight anymore in this battle, and the old minister asks the king to open the city and surrender." ” "Please surrender" Wang Hui was shocked and said: "Prime minister, has my Goryeo Kingdom reached such a point, is this king going to be the king of the dead country?"
"Although the king can rest assured, the king will not become the king of the lost country, but only cede the land and pay compensation for peace, and the Xia army will definitely not destroy my Goryeo country."
Cheng Shi said to Wang Hui.
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