Chapter 66: Everyone has their own intentions

Speaking of this, Qi Dabao stopped involuntarily. Wu Ji looked at him and saw Qi Dabao's face full of shock, with a strong sense of fear and worry on his face.

Look at Zheng Tai. This parent-official official has long lost his former calmness. His face is very sad and his eyes are also filled with fear.

Although Huangfu Song did not say a word, his expression was no different from the two.

If the Liao army came to attack the city again, they would not be so scared, and they might even shout and go forward. However, there was something wrong with Xiongzhou and Xiongzhou was in danger. Who can not be afraid? Wu Ji's heart was in his throat, his hands were involuntarily clenched into fists, and his eyes narrowed together.

You should know that Xiongzhou is originally named Waqiao Pass, which is the only way for Liao to enter the Central Plains. Since Zhou Shizong recovered, it has been strangling the throat of Liao. For more than a hundred years, Liao has always wanted to take Xiongzhou and send troops to the Central Plains. Like Emperor Taizong of Liao, he once again came to the Central Plains and trampled the Central Plains under his feet.

Empress Dowager Xiao signed a "Shenyuan Alliance" with the Song Dynasty, which brought decades of peace to the Song Dynasty. Some people praised her and said that she loved peace. That was actually nonsense, not that she didn't want to enter the Central Plains, but because she couldn't do it. The very important reason lies in the existence of Xiongzhou.

If she could conquer Xiongzhou, she would definitely not be satisfied with the Chanyuan Alliance and would not be satisfied with the mere annual monies. If she entered the Central Plains, the wealth of the Central Plains would become the Liao Kingdom. This is countless times the annual monies. As long as she was not a pig, she knew the choice.

If Xiongzhou falls, the Liao army will march straight into the Central Plains, and the old stories of Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang will repeat. By then, I don’t know how many people will die in the war. The Central Plains will definitely suffer unprecedented heavy damage. The losses will not be lower than those of Emperor Taizong of Liao’s invasion of the Central Plains, and perhaps even more serious.

This consequence is really too serious, and its severity is far beyond Wu Ji's imagination, so he has no choice but to be afraid.

"What happened later?" Wu Ji took a breath, calmed his mind, and his voice was hoarse and trembling.

"Later?" Qi Dabao came back from his shock: "Fortunately, General Zhou Wei was guarding Xiongzhou. If he changed someone, he would definitely turn around and escape. He brought gold, silver and soft softness, his family and wife, and escape as far as he could. General Zhou Wei is admirable. Not only did he not escape, he even did not panic. He stabilized the situation and mobilized the Song army and Liao Gou to fight bloody battle at the city gate."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment before saying, "In order to fight for the city gate, Liao Gou rushed forward like crazy. Fortunately, General Zhou Wei was there, under his leadership, the Song army resisted fiercely. In order to fight for the city gate, countless casualties were killed and injured on both sides. It is said that the corpses at the city gate piled up layer after layer, and the blood flowed out into ice, and it was red, several inches thick."

He said it briefly, but he could imagine the iron-blooded smell. The city gate is of great importance to both sides and will not let go easily. If the Liao army seized the city gate, the Liao army would enter the city continuously and finally take down Xiongzhou. If the Song army regained the city gate, it would drive the Liao army out of Xiongzhou City, and the efforts of the Liao army would be vain.

This is definitely the closest Liao Kingdom to conquering Xiongzhou in the Hundred Years War. No matter how many people die, Liao Kingdom will never give up, and will never give up!

"Although General Zhou Wei was well commanded and mobilized the Song army to fight, it was a haste and it was difficult to regain the city gate, so he had to withdraw from the city gate." Qi Dabao became more and more frightened as he spoke. He took a long breath and calmed down his mind, and then said, "Fortunately, General Zhou Wei was deeply connected with military affairs. Despite this, he was not panicked. While leading the Song army to resist, he ordered the people in the city to engage in a bloody battle. He even mobilized the people, demolished the houses, pushed down the walls, and built an ice city, just like we were doing what we were converting."

"Nevertheless, an ice wall could not resist the Liao army. The Liao army kept advancing and broke through the ice wall. General Zhou Wei had long expected this and built ice walls in Xiongzhou City to resist the Liao army. Although it could delay the fall of Xiongzhou, it could not reverse the situation and urgently needed reinforcements."

Speaking of this, Qi Dabao stopped, sighed, and then said, "Liaogou is cruel this time. Not only did he dispatch 50,000 troops to attack Xiongzhou, but he also sent tens of thousands of troops to restrain others. These restricted places cannot be protected by themselves. How can we divide our troops to reinforce? We are the only ones who can reinforce Xiongzhou."

It can be seen that Yelu Hongji has been planning this attack for a long time and is under his plan everywhere. Wu Ji took a deep breath and smiled bitterly: "Can we reinforce? With our few defeated soldiers, even if we rush to go, we will not succeed."

This is the truth. The Liao army sieges the city twice, and the Congxin Army had already been disabled, and only half of them could be put on the battlefield. Even if they were heroes from Qiyun Club, there were only more than 300 people. With this little force, they rushed to Xiongzhou to reinforce, which was like flying a moth to a fire and causing self-destruction.

Zheng Tai, Huangfu Song, Qi Dabao, you look at me, I look at you, I can't speak.

"Commander Wu, we can't watch Xiongzhou fall." Zheng Tai finally restrained his fear and whispered to remind him.

"If I can't watch, what else can I do?" Wu Ji spread his hands and said in great distress: "If I could have more soldiers in my hands, don't say too much. Even if I have more than a thousand people, I wouldn't be so worried and would go to reinforcements without hesitation. The problem is that we are just over 300 people and tens of thousands of Liao troops can drown us in one spit. To reinforcements, we also need strength."

"Why!"

Zheng Tai and the other two sighed in unison, answering speechlessly. It was not that they didn’t want to save them, but that they had no choice but to save them without the strength.

In the desert, in Yelu Hongji's Oludo, several pots of blue flames spewed out hot heat, making the tent warm as spring.

Yelu Hongji sat on the throne and was dealing with a roasted whole lamb. He held a small golden knife in his right hand, held a golden cup in his left hand, ate a bite of lamb, and drank a sip of wine, and was happy and sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Report to the Emperor, Xiongzhou Military Newspaper."

A sergeant army stepped in and submitted a military newspaper.

Yelu Hongji took it and opened it. He raised his eyebrows that were dark and dark, raised his head to the sky, and laughed: "Okay! OK! OK! Yelu Ming, you fight well! If you work harder, you can seize Xiongzhou. People come, send an order, take up and go to Youzhou. Mobilize the army. This time I will lead the army to enter the Central Plains and reappear the old stories of Taizong! Haha!"

He stood up suddenly and walked away quickly, his steps were as light as if he was flying.

Henan Prefecture, now Luoyang, Sima Guang's Mansion was in the palace. Sima Guang frowned, with a faint worry in his eyes. He did not write his "Zizhi Tongjian", but kept paced around.

Sima Kang stood aside, not in his heart, and asked carefully: "Dad, why are you worried?"

"What else can I do? The Xiongzhou army fought well. Since getting Wu Ji's sword to kill the enemy, the Liao army has been unable to do anything. As long as reinforcements arrive, the Liao army will retreat. Such a good opportunity is missed. Wang Anshi, why are you so lucky?" Sima Guang smashed the back of his right hand into the palm of his left hand, very depressed.

"Dad, even if we win, we have a chance." Sima Kang did not agree with his opinion.

"Opportunity?" Sima Guang shook his head: "There are not too many opportunities. Since the reform, we have not stopped opposing the new law, and it has been difficult to make it happen today. Just work harder and Wang Anshi will get out. If the Xiongzhou Army wins, his position will be more stable. You must know that the Liao Kingdom has lost 15,000 or 160 troops to this point, which is rare in the history of the Song Dynasty. This is a great victory, which will make Wang Anshi's position more stable. If Wang Anshi cannot stop his position this time, we will not have many opportunities."

After a brief pause, he continued: "In the Battle of Xihe, Wang Shao took Xihe and locked Xixia from the west to stabilize Wang Anshi's phase. It took us several years to eliminate the impact of Xihe. If there is another great victory in Xiongzhou, we will have to spend a lot of effort."

Sima Kang thought that this was the case, and couldn't help but sigh and didn't say anything.

Sima Guang kept paced with a sad face.

"Bang!"

The door was pushed open vigorously, and a confidant rushed in quickly.

"Who told you to be so reckless?" Sima Kang shouted loudly. The noise was very loud, and it was obvious that he did not take them seriously.

However, the confidant ignored him and rushed up and saluted Sima Guang, and gasped: "Sir, there is news in Xiongzhou. The Liao army has entered the city..."

"What? Did the Liao army enter the city?"

Sima Guang and his son screamed in unison, their eyes widening, and they were a little disbelief.

"Yes!" The confidant wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and gasped, saying, "The Emperor of Liao Kingdom Yelu Hongji buried his fuzi in Xiongzhou ten years ago. He opened the city gate and cooperated inside and outside, and the Liao army entered the city."

“…”

The room was quiet, and there was no other sound except for the heavy breathing.

"If Xiongzhou is lost, the Liao army will march straight into the war, and the war will burn the Central Plains red!" The cold sweat on Sima Kang's forehead flowed out, and his body trembled: "The old story of Yelu Deguang will repeat. I don't know how many people died in this war! The Central Plains are broken, and we will become sinners!"

"Has Xiongzhou fallen?" Sima Guang was stunned for a long time before he woke up.

"Not yet, it's not much." The confidant replied: "Although Zhou Wei is brave, he is powerless to make the world come true. It's only a matter of time before Xiongzhou loses his invisibility."

Sima Guang waved his hand and his confidant quickly stepped back. Sima Kang took a step forward and asked, "Dad, what should we do?"

Sima Guang looked up to the sky and didn't speak for a long time. After a while, he sighed and said, "Although I was in a quarrel with Wang Anshi and wanted to replace him, I never thought of letting Xiongzhou fall. If Xiongzhou falls, the Central Plains will be burned by war and the people will be ruined. I don't know how many people die in the war."

"Yes!" Sima Kang shook his head helplessly.

"Send someone to Han Qi immediately, and Lu Gong will send them a letter, asking them to work harder and take this opportunity to get rid of Wang Anshi." Sima Guang looked at Sima Kang.

"Dad, it's so time. Do you still have to engage in internal strife? Can you work together to drive the Liao Kingdom out before talking about it?" Sima Kang disagreed and his voice was very high. He said: "Brothers fight against the wall and defend against their insults outside. No matter how much hatred we have with Wang Anshi, we should be united in this season and deal with the chaos that follows. We must never have any internal strife again."

"Don't be fooled!" Sima Guang shouted coldly and said, "It is also a chaos to engage in internal strife. Not to engage in internal strife is still a chaos. Instead of doing so, it is better to take the opportunity to get rid of Wang Anshi. We will deal with the chaos again and we must not give him any credit. Go and arrange it quickly, and I will continue to write "Zizhi Tongjian"."

He strode back to his seat, picked up his pen, and then wrote his "Zizhi Tongjian".
Chapter completed!