Ten days later, Li Bingchang, the king of Jin, was enjoying himself in the palace, and a group of singers from the Western Regions were rarely dancing and dancing, and Li Bingchang enjoyed the current process very much; Just when Li Bing was enjoying himself, Li Hao and Liang Yongneng came, and in these ten days, Xia Jun got enough time to rest and recuperate, and at the same time, the captured baggage was also clearly checked. \ After Li Hao came in, he drank two glasses of water and wine and said to Li Bingchang: "Big brother, all the seizures have been counted, the Khorezm army has stored more than 2 million stone grains and grass in Keti, in addition to 300,000 catties of jerky, more than 2 million gold, more than 30 million taels of silver, and antiques, calligraphy and paintings worth tens of millions of taels, and more importantly, we have captured more than 400,000 war horses, as well as millions of cattle and sheep, this time it is a bumper harvest." ” "Yes, Lord Wang, with these, we can finally have a territory of our own in the Western Regions."
Liang Yongneng also said happily: "Lord Wang, do you see if we should march to the Jade Dragon Jiechi." ” "That's right, big brother, we've all rested for so long, it's time to march to Jade Dragon Jiechi," Li Hao, the king of Yue, also said.
"Yulong Jiechi is more than 600 miles away from Kirti, and above this road is the grassland of Pingchuan, and there is no danger to defend at all, so the Khorezm army should not be fighting with us in the field after the last fiasco, and it is very likely that they will refuse to defend the city."
Li Bingchang said to the two; "According to the information we have obtained, the capital of Khorezm, Yulongjie Chicheng, is four feet five feet high, and the top is about one zhang wide, all of which are built of bluestone barriers, and the grain and grass stored in the city are enough for them to use for three years; If the Khwarazm army were to defend the city, I am afraid that we would have to prepare for a long siege; We have limited forces and cannot fight hard against them, so we can only outwit them."
Hu Si cut his ears and Anxi Dadu Protectorate, and Li Yi was dealing with official documents; A Xia general came in and reported to Li Yiyu: "Your Royal Highness the King of Jin has written that Koti has been captured, and in order to prevent a sudden attack by the Seljuk army, I hope that our army can be stationed in Samad for defense." ” "Captured Kirti so quickly, and the king of Jin has grown."
Li Yi said with a smile; "Report this matter to Your Majesty immediately."
"Yes, I'll do it."
"Wait."
Li Yi said suddenly: "Send someone to send another 50,000 catties of gunpowder to the King of Jin, the next target of the King of Jin is Yulongjie Chicheng, which is known as the first fortified city in the Western Regions, and this hard bone is not easy to gnaw." ” "Dadu Hu, we have a total of 80,000 catties of gunpowder left in the warehouse, this is our important war preparation, and it has been sent to His Royal Highness the King of Jin, what will we use when the time comes" General Xia complained.
"If you don't have gunpowder, you won't fight, isn't it good when there was no gunpowder before, hurry up and do it, 50,000 catties and a pound can't be less."
Li Yi reprimanded General Xia and said.
"Yes, the last will obey" Just when Li Yi sent people to give Li Bingchang Song gunpowder, Li Bingchang was marching towards Yulongjie Chicheng with a large army, just as Li Bingchang expected, there was no Khwarazm army at all in the places along the way, and even the figure of the Khwarazm people could not be seen, and all the Khwarazm people were retreated into the nearby city.
At night, in the camp of the summer army, Li Hao, the king of Yue, reported to Li Bingchang: "Big brother, it's really strange, not to mention the shadow of a person within a radius of 100 miles around here, but you can't even see a ghost shadow." ” Li Bingchang said naturally: "This is normal, this shows that the people of Khorezm have retreated to the city and cleared the wilderness with strong walls." ” "Big brother, if we fight like this, we will reach the Year of the Monkey," Li Hao said with some complaints.
"Now we're going to change our strategy."
Li Bingchang said: "For these Khwarazmian people who are cowering in the city, try to lure them to surrender, and those who take the initiative to surrender will not commit any offense after entering the city, but if they resist, they will immediately slaughter the city." ” "Yes, my brother is commanded" Half a month later, the Xia army swept all the way finally came to the Jade Dragon Jie Chicheng, which is worthy of being known as the first strong city in the Western Regions, with a radius of more than 60 miles from the entire city, and a complete city defense system, in order to build such a big city, Khorezm can be said to be a painstaking effort; Moreover, in order to prevent the attack of the Xia army, the army defending the city had already strengthened the city, and hundreds of catapults and bed crossbows were placed on the city wall.
Looking at the city in front of him, Li Hao said in surprise: "I'm obedient, I'm afraid I'm going to catch up with Kaifeng City; A city as big as Big Brother can't even be encircled by our hundreds of thousands of people alone. ” Li Bingchang said to Li Hao: "You don't have to surround it all, don't worry, the defenders in the city will not come out; He ordered the army to encamp thirty miles east of the city. ” "Yes, my brother will arrange it."
Li Hao immediately received the order.
For three days in a row, the Xia army did not have the slightest intention of attacking the city, and Li Bingchang, the king of Jin, was playing with women in addition to hunting, not to mention that there were really a lot of prey around Yulongjie Chicheng, but since the Xia army came, they have suffered, because the Xia army did not carry much grain and grass at all, and it was simply unwilling to count on the rear grain road, so hunting was an important means for the Xia army to obtain food supplies. was so anxious that he couldn't sit still anymore, broke into Li Bingchang's big tent, and saw that Li Bingchang was watching the song and dance, and he was even more angry; Li Hao yelled at Li Bingchang: "Big brother, whether you can fight this battle or not, it's been a few days." ” "It's not the time yet."
Li Bingchang said while drinking: "If you and Liang Yongneng can't wait, you can each lead 30,000 troops to the north, south or west to attack other cities." ” "It's better to go than to be idle here."
Li Hao said.
The next day Li Hao and Liang Yongneng led an army of 60,000 to leave, Li Hao led the army all the way to the west and swept the entire west and south of Khorezm in two months, the Xia army passed through the city is basically a slaughter, everything in the city is all snatched up, the Xia army is not stationed in the local army, when leaving directly a fire to finish, the entire Xia army has become a nightmare of Khorezm.
After sweeping through the west and south, the Xia army suffered very little losses; The two directly led the troops north into the Kipchak grassland, the Kipchaks were vassals of Khorezm, facing the Xia army in the north, although the Kipchaks had lost 100,000 people, but did not have the courage to compete with the Xia army, most of the Kipchak tribes surrendered directly to the Xia army, in less than three months, the entire Khorezm only left Yulongjie Chicheng was not captured by the Xia army.
During these three months, the Xia army did not attack Yulongjie Chicheng once; Facing the Xia army, which was reluctant to attack, the defenders in the city were vigilant from the beginning and slowly relaxed; Of course, the Xia army was not idle in these three months, Li Bingchang ordered people to build a large number of siege equipment, including building cars, rushing cars, ladders, return guns, etc., the wood used to build siege equipment was cut from the mountains and forests more than 200 miles away, in order to get these wood, the Xia army took a lot of effort, and the Xia army did not attack for three months, but Galga breathed a sigh of relief.
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