The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 440 Can't wait for a long time
Four or five days later, the soldiers and horses led by Zhao Guangyi rushed to the foot of Taiyuan City.

It's just that after Zhao Guangyi led the soldiers and horses to the city of Taiyuan, he was not in a hurry to send troops to attack the city.

Zhao Guangyi followed Zhao Kuangyin to fight north and south when he was very young. He is also a good soldier. His troops are much smaller than those in Taiyuan City. If he attacked the city, he would suffer a lot of losses.

Therefore, if you want to win, you can only lure the soldiers and horses of the Northern Han Dynasty out of the city to fight with them. The Song Dynasty was just founded, and the soldiers and horses are strong and strong, which is by no means comparable to those soldiers and horses of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Zhao Guangyi is very confident that as long as Beihan dares to fight outside the city, he is sure to beat Beihan to the ground, and even wipe out Beihan quickly.

Therefore, after the soldiers approached the city, Zhao Guangyi just ordered his soldiers to set up camp five miles away, and sent people to take precautions to prevent the Northern Han from attacking the camp.

And when Zhao Guangyi was confronting Liu Jiyuan in the Northern Han Dynasty in Taiyuan City, Liu Jiye was also confronting Liu Wei in Longzhou City.

But the situation in Longzhou seems to be more complicated than in Taiyuan City.

Liu Jiye is by no means an ordinary person, he can be regarded as one of the most famous generals in this era, and Liu Wei may not be able to hide any conspiracy from him, not to mention, Liu Jiye's wife, She Saihua, is a leader among girls. The combination of people makes Longzhou City an iron wall.

But that evening, the news that Zhao Guangyi had rushed to Taiyuan City reached Longzhou City. After hearing this, Liu Jiye felt uneasy. Liu Jiyuan was terrified in Taiyuan City, and asked Liu Jiye to move troops to rescue him, and he would attack Zhao Guangyi under the city of Taiyuan with the troops of Taiyuan City.

After Liu Jiye heard the news, he immediately threw the imperial decree to the ground.

"Zizi has no plan. If I lead my troops to rescue Taiyuan City, Liu Wei's soldiers will immediately capture Longzhou City. At that time, Liu Wei and Zhao Guangyi may attack back and forth and destroy my soldiers and horses." At that time, we have no city to defend and can only be slaughtered by others."

After Liu Jiye finished speaking, his son Liu Tingyu immediately said: "Father, although the emperor's order is unreasonable, as subjects, how can we disobey the imperial order? Why don't you let your son lead some soldiers and horses to support Taiyuan City, father?" Then lead another group of soldiers to confront Liu Wei. This Liu Wei has only made a fake move with us these days, and has never really wanted to fight us with real swords and guns. We might as well use suspicious tactics, maybe with few soldiers. We can hold Liu Wei's [-] soldiers and horses, and we can destroy Zhao Guangyi's soldiers and horses together with Taiyuan soldiers and horses. If Zhao Guangyi can be killed in this battle, then Da Song will not dare to fight me for at least ten years. Northern Han used soldiers."

After Liu Tingyu finished speaking, Liu Jiye immediately began to think. He felt that what his son said was right. As a general, although he had the authority to disobey the order of the emperor, it was definitely not a loyal minister's act to disobey the order of the emperor.

Thinking of this, Liu Jiye said: "Alright, you can lead [-] soldiers to support Taiyuan City, and lead the remaining [-] soldiers to deal with Liu Wei for your father."

It's not that Liu Jiye is unwilling to give his son too many soldiers and horses, but that Longzhou City is too important to be lost, and that Liu Wei is the most intelligent person in the Song Dynasty, and he has no chance of winning by himself, so he must stay Enough troops.
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Outside Longzhou City, the wind is warm.

In the camp of the Song Army, Liu Wei stood on a slightly higher ground and looked at the Longzhou City built by Liu Jiye, which was like a fortress of copper and iron. A sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He knew from the beginning that Liu Jiye was a general who was good at fighting, but he didn't expect that Liu Jiye was also good at defending the city, and now the entire city of Longzhou was defended by him like an iron wall.

It seems impossible to capture Longzhou City without making some sacrifices.

And even if you want to attack your heart, you can't.

Liu Jiye can be said to be a mythical existence in the Northern Han Dynasty. As long as he is there, the enemy will not want to do anything to the Northern Han Dynasty. Over the years, Liu Jiye has a great reputation among the people, even greater than Liu Wei's reputation in the Song Dynasty.

Maybe Liu Wei just had some fame, but Liu Jiye had not only fame in the Northern Han Dynasty, but also a spirit, a spirit of defending his family and the country.

This is incomparable to Liuwei.

Therefore, it is also impossible to use psychological tactics without sacrificing the lives of soldiers.

Under the leadership of Liu Jiye, Longzhou City is now united as one. There are people in the city, and people in the city are dead. It seems impossible to attack people's hearts and make the people in the city mess up.

After Liu Wei looked at Longzhou City, he couldn't help sighing. Originally, he thought that after Zhao Guangyi led the troops to leave, he should be able to finish Longzhou City quickly, but now it seems that it is impossible.

War is never as simple as imagined, and war is always much crueler than imagined. When a siege device or siege strategy is displayed, it may be all the rage, but any weapon or strategy has flaws Yes, with the use of these weapons and strategies, the opening will slowly be revealed.

And the previous situation of quick settlement of the war no longer exists.

Therefore, Liu Wei knew very well that the chances of successfully attacking the city with Yunlou or other weapons already known to the public were very small.

Perhaps, with a different kind of siege object, the chance of success may be higher.

In Liu Wei's view, even after hundreds of years, the most powerful thing to attack the city is the cannon.

In this era, there is gunpowder. Many Taoist priests have practiced gunpowder when they were alchemy. Liu Wei has also seen the method of making gunpowder before. If he wants to do it, he can do it.

It's just that Liu Wei is a little worried.

Worrying that hot weapons appear too early will easily lead to an unmanageable situation.

The greater the lethality of the weapon, the greater the number of deaths. They will definitely be able to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty. If gunpowder is used, Longzhou City will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, but most of Longzhou City are innocent. The common people, even Liu Jiye, are just ministers, and they have to do it as a last resort.

Liu Wei didn't want to kill these people.

Liu Wei is not against war, he is just against meaningless wars and against the harm wars cause to innocent people.

When Liu Wei came down from the high place, the sky was getting late, the spring breeze was a bit cool, and there was a murderous air in the darkness, Zhuge Pi looked up at the sky and said, "My lord, I'm afraid it's going to rain."

Liu Wei nodded: "It's going to rain, spring rain is as expensive as oil, it's just that this rain came at an inopportune time."

Zhugepi was a little confused about what Liu Wei meant by this, but at this moment, Liu Wei suddenly ordered: "Go and invite King Wei to my lord's tent to discuss something important."

Zhugepi frowned slightly, but he didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly took his orders and left.

(End of this chapter)