Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

After sending Di Qing off, Lu Ci had a rare leisure time, so he was not in a hurry to go home, but stayed in the market for a stroll.

If you return too early, you may be 'caught' by friends who come to the door from time to time. Once you are 'entangled', you may not be able to go back for the next half a day.

It's just that he didn't expect that no matter how well he planned, he couldn't keep up with the coincidence that hit the door.

At that time, he hadn't even had time to make a move on the second favorite dim sum when the sound of wheels rolling over the ground came from behind him from far to near, accompanied by the crisp ringing of bells.

It was one of the busiest times in the streets, and the busiest in the carriage lanes.Whenever there is a situation that has to occupy part of the wide road for people to walk on, the owner of the car will ask the driver to hang a silver bell and make a rapid bell as a warning.

Lu Ci wasn't surprised by this, and he didn't bother to turn his head. He took a step forward and let his body stand next to the wooden boards spread out by the vendors, so he avoided it.

As a result, the sound of the donkey's hooves stopped abruptly just as it passed him.

Lu Ci didn't realize that it had anything to do with him. After aiming at his favorite snacks, he smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, please have some mochi—"

"A feather?"

Lu Ci's words came to an abrupt end.

He turned around in disbelief, met the face of Kou Zhun who lifted the curtain of the car and poked his head out, and slowly took off his cloak: "...Mr. Can you recognize it too?"

Kou Zhun snorted coldly, and said triumphantly, "You haven't got in the car yet, is it possible that you are still waiting for me to invite you up in person?"

The corner of Lu Ci's mouth twitched, he knew that he couldn't easily change the topic in front of this idiot old man, he could only get in the car quickly and go as told by the domineering prime minister in the middle of the road before the crowd of onlookers surrounded him. up.

"It's easy for you," as soon as Lu Ci sat down across from him, Kou Zhun complained, "As soon as the superintendent finishes the exam, you're not in the capital, and you don't have to go to the court every day to be a director, so you can have a leisurely time." ?”

Lu Ci said with a smile: "Those who are capable work hard, even if Xianggong wants to be free, he is destined to be unable to be free."

"Promise!" Kou Zhun curled his lips, half-truthfully disdainfully said: "I am an old bone and still toss every day. You are young, so you can enjoy your leisure!"

Lu Ci had long been used to Kou Zhun's sharp mouth, and he took these words as a breeze, and said with a smile: "Sanggong specially called me to get in the car, presumably it's not just to complain about these few words, right?"

"That's right." Kou Zhun said bluntly, "Since it's such a coincidence, I'll chat with you for a few words—if my guess is right, you're probably going to wait until you finish the exam, so you'll pack your bags and go back to Qinzhou Do you want to go?"

"Listen to Mr. Xiang." Lu Ci's smile continued: "Could there be any changes in this matter?"

"It's indeed out, and it's not too young." Speaking of this, Kou Zhun couldn't hold back the smile on his face anymore, and slapped his thigh happily: "Haven't you been busy preparing to resist that bastard Li Yuanhao's fortification? You didn't go up He missed the military report that had just arrived in the court, but under the joint efforts of the Tubo king and General Cao, he stumbled the boss!"

Perhaps Lu Ci's cooperative expression of surprise satisfied Kou Zhun's desire to show off. He didn't wait for Lu Ci to ask again, and he explained the new battle situation in the Northwest in detail like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

But he said that after paying a terrible price to take down Maoniu City, Li Yuanhao knew the truth that soldiers are precious and fast, so he only took a rest for a while, and went straight to the new king's capital where he had just settled down without stopping.

When he arrived at the city of Qingtang with a vast army of hundreds of thousands, what he was facing was a hard-shelled bastard who had been adhering to the way of shrinking from the beginning to the end.

Rao is the Xixia soldiers, led by the wise and mighty lord, whose morale is like a rainbow, waiting like wolves to make contributions, and for a while, they can't do anything to this shining, impregnable city that has been repaired many times.

After suffering from Maoniucheng's losses, Li Yuanhao was always suspicious that Zong Siluo still had tricks to play. Even if he put out a desperate plan to besiege the city, he did not forget to clearly mark the escape route, and then sent people every day Go check around and prepare to meet the reinforcements.

In the end, he was fully prepared, but the reinforcements were delayed: I don’t know if he got Zanpu’s death order, or he was chilled by Zanpu’s plan of only protecting himself, or it was too short for the succession period of Jisiluo. In time to absorb Wen Buqi's subordinates...

After waiting in full force for more than a month, only 20 of the legendary one million Tubo soldiers have been hiding in the city, and the other 80 are still motionless in their respective cities, showing no sign of being mobilized.

Li Yuanhao keenly smelled something bad, but Zanpu was in the city in front of him. As long as he took it in one fell swoop, the huge temptation of most of Tubo's territory was in front of him. No matter how powerful his reason was, he couldn't resist it at all. .

It's just that after spending two months working outside the city, Li Yuanhao wanted to retreat from the bottom of his heart.

It is true that the city wall was riddled with holes by the siege equipment he brought, and it was no longer as bright as before. However, judging from the performance of Maoniu City that seemed to be crumbling at the beginning, but still held on for a long time, Qingtang City only I'm afraid it will be more powerful in this respect.

Moreover, the people hiding here are not the thousands of Qingtang people who have run out of ammunition and food, but 20 elite Tubo soldiers who are waiting for work and are full of energy!

In contrast, whether it is the extended supply line of Xixia or the gradually cooling climate, the Xixia soldiers who have fought long distances and have not seen much results are exhausted.

Even under his vigorous mobilization, it is difficult to hide the decline in morale.

However, Li Yuanhao intends to retreat temporarily, and has been enduring heartache to support him with food and grass. So far, Khitan, who has not seen the slightest benefit except for a few cities that are like cats and cows, can't sit still.

Just because Li Yuanhao felt that the momentum was not good, would his large amount of food and grass go to waste?

It is conceivable that as soon as Li Yuanhao revealed this image, his powerful Yue family wrote letters and scolded him several times, and he ended up bloody.

In the face of the big situation, Li Yuanhao naturally endured the humiliation for a while, and at worst, he would pay it back even more when he rose up.

What made him really hard to get off was the threat of cutting off aid clearly expressed by the Khitan king—under the circumstances that he was doomed to see no return, Yelu Longxu did not intend to spend a large amount of military funds on this unreliable On the head of the son-in-law, he will be left to fend for himself.

Of course, what Li Yuanhao knows better is that once the two families are completely torn apart, with Yelu Longxu's style, he will never really let him "fend for himself" as the pretty face said, but Most likely they will take the lead in dispatching troops, rushing to devour him before Song and Tubo.

Under pressure from both sides, Li Yuanhao decisively made the decision to change his target: he left [-] soldiers and horses, a large number of tents and the most important lieutenant general, and personally took the rest of the soldiers on a long journey. After being transferred away, Qin Zhou seemed defenseless.

Li Yuanhao's real intention was naturally not to gnaw another hard bone in the absence of siege equipment: Leaving aside the warlike Song Taizong, the next two Song court lords seemed indecisive and weak.

With them approaching aggressively, the Qinzhou soldiers will definitely choose to lock the gates of the city to defend the battle instead of confronting them head-on.

What Li Yuanhao expected was right—when they suddenly rushed to him like ghosts, Teng Zongliang, who only got the news one day in advance, the only thing he did was to hastily recall all the farmers working outside the city. The heavily reinforced city gates were closed tightly, and the soldiers were photographed on the various fortresses, facing each other with bows and crossbows.

idiot.

Li Yuanhao sneered from the bottom of his heart and said: With Tubo Zanpu in front of him, he has no interest in capturing Qinzhou City at all!

What he planned was to stay outside the city, too late to evacuate with the farmers in large quantities of ripe wheat!

Although he went straight to Qingtang City, he also successfully captured several Tubo cities, and it was far less difficult than capturing Maoniu City.

But what came with this relaxation was that when they sent people to carefully check the confiscated grain storage in the city, they were shocked to find that the cruel and ruthless Zong Siluo had replaced [-]% of it with poisonous wheat in advance.

Even if you spend a lot of time and effort to filter out the remaining [-]% that have not been poisoned, it is not enough to meet the needs of the army.

In order not to be threatened by the Liao lord who is eager for quick success, he also intends to teach a lesson to Qinzhou City, which built the damn city and made him feel stuck in his throat. He swaggered away under the eyes of Song people who were afraid to fight.

I can't believe the grain in the granaries in Tubo city, but the new wheat harvested from the field by myself is always credible.

Li Yuanhao, who embraced this idea, returned home full of satisfaction, and the journey was unimpeded.

The group of useless Song defenders only dared to watch them leave from a distance, and none of them dared to catch up.

At this point in the narration, Kou Zhun, who was speaking dryly, looked at Lu Ci who was contemplating with complicated eyes, and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "I really don't know if I should praise you for your foresight, or for being insidious and cunning."

No one expected that Xixia would fight against Tubo first; no one expected that Tubo, who had just ushered in the new Zanpu and should be in turmoil, would be so strong that it dragged Li Yuanhao into misery; Under the persecution of the Lord, he had to lead his own troops to plunder food and grass, and happened to focus on Qinzhou, where Zhizhou was not there, and it was a result that no one could have expected.

However, under this many coincidences, Li Yuanhao was so confident that he stepped on the trap that Lu Ci had set up early, and he suffered a serious injury.

——The Xixia army who ate a stomach full of weeds without any doubt, and had a painful diarrhea all night, the Tubo army led by Jisiluo himself, and the Song army who was ambushing on the retreat route under Li Yuanhao fought a perfect two Side attack.

Tens of thousands of Xixia army students were beaten until only half of the [-] remained, and they all fled back to Dangxiang.

Lu Ci blinked, and also replied from the bottom of his heart: "I also find it incredible."

In his original guess, Li Yuanhao would attack Qinzhou first and set up this game. Rather than saying that he wanted to trick Li Yuanhao sincerely, it would be better to ensure the safety of the farmers, relying on the abundance of food and grass, to implement the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness in advance. .

When he learned earlier that Xixia soldiers were going straight to Tubo, he thought it was a waste of time and wasted the opportunity to plant another season of crops, feeling a little pity.

Under Kou's obviously disbelieving gaze, Lu Ci thought for a while and replied sincerely, "It's fate."

——Fate is beyond words.