Li Foma sat on the throne, his face calm and he didn't say anything, listening quietly as Li Renyi talked about the situation of the Battle of Liangzhou, how Xu Ping said to him, and why he let him come back.↖

In the end, Li Renyi said: "Xu Ping, the commander of the Song army, is just a young man in his early twenties. He has achieved this situation with great luck. As young as he thinks, he has been pretending to be accustomed to me, and he thinks he wants to alienate our monarch and ministers and reap profits."

Li Foma was neither angry nor happy, but just looked at Li Renyi calmly and signaled him to continue.

Li Renyi only felt his scalp numb. Li Foma was scheming and did not show his emotions. After so many years of being together, Li Renyi knew deeply that his expression now had become suspicious of himself and no longer trusted him unconditionally. After that, he might have nothing to do, or he might have been knocked into the abyss. No one could guess the emperor's thoughts.

When he succeeded to the throne, the "Three Kings Rebellion" broke out. Li Foma was artificial and not only successfully ascended the throne, but also won the reputation of benevolence and righteousness, and quickly took care of other brothers. It was not that there was a long arrangement, so how could it be so clean and neat? But Li Foma, in the eyes of others, values ​​affection and righteousness, and is extremely kind.

Li Renyi gritted the bullet and continued, "I think that if the Song army put us back, they must have had strange thoughts and wanted to have internal conflicts in Shenglong Mansion, and they would do something lucky."

"Oh, then do you think the Song army will come to attack Shenglong Mansion?"

Li Renyi replied carefully: "It seems that the Song army will not withdraw immediately, but they dare not cross the Fuliang River. They will watch the movements in our city from the other side."

Li Foma smiled at Li Renyi: "Why do you say that? My tens of thousands of troops in Jiaozhi were defeated by the Song army. Now there are only 5,000 soldiers in the city. Why don't they take advantage of the situation to attack the city?"

"Shenglongfu City is deep and hard. It is not comparable to a small town on the border. How can the Song army break through such a big city? Once it is stuck under the strong city, the troops in other parts of Jiaozhi will be in time to serve the king. At that time, the Song army will face our internal and external attacks, and the offense and defense will be easy!"

Li Foma smiled happily and said, "Well said, the Song army attacked the city, which gave us the opportunity to turn defeat into victory. Well said, it seems that we can rest assured and ignore the Song people!"

At this moment, an eunuch rushed in quickly and saluted Li Foma and said, "Master, the general who defended the city just came to report that the Song army has crossed the Fuliang River!"

"Didn't the ferry be taken care of? How did they cross the river?"

Li Foma suddenly stood up and stared at the eunuch who came in.

"Yes - they had cavalry crossed the river from the upstream. Then they went down the coast and seized the ferry..."

Li Foma snorted coldly and said to the eunuch: "Sorry people to find out where the Song cavalry crossed the river, and after this battle-"

Speaking of this, Li Foma is already murderous.

The eunuch responded tremblingly and retreated carefully.

Li Renyi stared at the back of the eunuch who went out and felt completely cold. He had always been in charge of the affairs in the palace. He knew the eunuch who was a little taller, and he could see clearly that it was exactly what he had punished before. It was obvious that Li Foma had changed the people in the palace and cleared his power. After this war, no matter what the result was, he would no longer have a pre-Mental status.

It seems to be true. Li Renyi's adopted son Li Mingxin went to Liangzhou to supervise the army, but the main general Chen Changji died in battle. Li Mingxin ran back alone. Then Li Renyi went to supervise the army, and the main general Li Fengxiao died in battle again, but he was inexplicably released by the Song army. Li Foma still believed that he was the devil.

The reason why Li Foma was able to speak to Li Renyi here is because he was worried that he had too many internal and external party members, and that sudden handling would cause turmoil. There were many concerns about this opportunity.

Turning around, Li Foma said to Li Renyi kindly: "You have worked hard along the way, go and have a good rest. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. As long as we deal with it carefully, everything will be fine."

Li Renyi wanted to go back, but he was still unwilling to give up and said to Li Foma carefully: "Now, the most important thing is to let the generals who are leading the troops go back to the Long Mansion to serve the king. I wonder if the emperor has arranged someone to give orders?"

Li Foma smiled and said, "You won't have to lose your worries about some small things. Now you just need to have a good rest. I don't know how many big things you have to lend you in the future!"

Li Renyi sighed in his heart and had to take his leave. I hope he can turn bad luck into good fortune this time. With his years of understanding of Li Foma, the methods he has tempered in the palace will always make a comeback.

After crossing the Fuliang River, only a few dozen miles away from Shenglong Mansion, Xu Ping took his men and horses for a short rest and rushed straight to Shenglong Mansion City. At the same time, he ordered Gao Daquan and Han Daocheng to lead his cavalry to sweep the surrounding area of ​​Shenglong Mansion, first remove all the outer strongholds, and at the same time block the internal and external contacts of Jiaozhi Royal City.

Shenglong Mansion was built in the Former Tang Dynasty and was the location of the Annan Protectorate. The name has been changed many times until Li Gongyun moved the royal city from the downstream Chang'an Mansion to this place, and it was renamed Shenglong Mansion.

Before the name was changed, Shenglong Mansion was called Daluo City. Since it was called Luocheng, it naturally had an inner and outer city. The inner city was the essence of the city. All the forbidden palaces, government officials, princes and nobles lived in the inner city. The outer city was mostly people and merchants. At this time, Shenglong Mansion, as the Jiaozhi royal city, had become the most prosperous place in Jiaozhi.

In terms of regulation, Shenglong Prefecture is actually somewhat similar to Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Song Dynasty. Of course, it is not of that scale, but it is also a rare and prosperous city in this foreign barbarian country.

Looking at the tall city wall in front, Xu Ping said to Sang Yi beside him: "We should not be busy and we did not bring any siege equipment. The city is built firmly. There is no other way to imagine. We can only forcefully blow up the city with gunpowder. Let's go around the city and see where to start."

Daluo City was built by Gao Pian, the governor of Annan and the governor of Jinghai Army during the Tang Dynasty to resist the invasion of Nanzhao. At that time, Nanzhao was not as unsustainable as Xu Ping now. They had been besieging the city for many years, so the city was built quite solidly. Especially since all the main city gates were built with urns, they couldn't even blew the city gates.

There is a moat outside the city, which is connected to West Lake, the number one scenic spot in Shenglongfu. Although the water in the moat is not too deep, it is impossible to trek by foot.

According to conventional rules, the first step to siege is to fill the river, and then all kinds of siege methods can be used. However, the moat in Shenglong Mansion is live water, which is not easy to fill, let alone Xu Ping does not have time to fill the river.

After watching with Sang Yi, Xu Ping smiled and said, "The people of Jiaozhi really imitated me from the Song Dynasty everywhere. Even this royal city looks like Kaifeng Prefecture. I see that there are few people in the northwest corner of the inner city, and there are not many soldiers guarding them. Why not start from there!"

Sang Yi nodded and said, "It's that! Blast the city wall and our soldiers must rush in as soon as possible. If the gap is blocked by the Jiaozhi people, all their efforts will be wasted! Not only are there few soldiers in the northwest corner, but it is inconvenient to dispatch troops anywhere in other places. It is the most suitable for us!"

The northwest part of Kaifeng Prefecture has a sparse population, similar to the suburbs, and there are even large areas of vegetable fields. However, Kaifeng is affected by the imperial city and the city gate routes, but I don’t know why this Shenglong Mansion is not very crowded. The northwest part of Kaifeng is not much population, which is even more desolate than the northwest part of Kaifeng City.

After choosing the place, Sang Yi went to arrange the manpower, and Xu Ping rode alone on the horse and looked at Shenglong Mansion from afar.

This is a real treasure land. Although it is located in Lingnan, it is distinct in four seasons and cannot rise. The Central Plains dynasties operated Jiaozhi and chose this place as the central foundation. After a thousand years of operation, there were many people from the Central Plains who stayed in all dynasties around Shenglong Mansion. They lived together and were also a major force. However, since the late Tang Dynasty, without the support of the Central Plains dynasty and the barriers of mountains and rivers, these Central Plains people gradually became local natives. According to the Song Dynasty, these Central Plains people had become Han barbarians.

For more or less, when Jiaozhi had just left the Central Plains dynasty, the royal city was always located in the downstream Hualu, that is, Chang'an Prefecture. When Li Gongyun ascended the throne, one was his own grand plan, and the other was that the power left by the previous dynasty in Chang'an Prefecture was deeply rooted, so he moved the royal city back to the old place of the Annan Protectorate.

If controlling Liangzhou has opened the gate to Jiaozhi south, then Shenglong Mansion is the heart of Jiaozhi. Only by controlling this place can you control Jiaozhi.

Looking at the evening, Xu Ping returned to the military camp for supper and then arrived at the central army tent.

Sang Yi came in happily from outside and said to Xu Ping: "Yunxing, you will never imagine what the people who delivered the food this afternoon brought us!"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "Do you have the artillery? I asked them to transport it."

Sang Yi sat down with a smile on his face: "It turned out that it was you who ordered me. I still find it strange. When did these soldiers get their brains? With artillery, we can fire a few cannons in the south of the city to attract the soldiers guarding the city of Jiaozhi, and then use gunpowder to blow up the city wall!"

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment: "I'm not used for this purpose! Transportation is not easy. Those transported here are light small cannons, and they cannot open the city gate. Originally, I thought that after the city collapsed, in order to prevent the gap between soldiers from blocking the gap, we would use the cannons to rush in a few rounds before our personnel rushed in."

"Hey, no matter whether he blows it away or not, we know, how can the Jiaozhi people know? As long as they lead their main force to the south of the city, we will have less trouble entering the city. As for the explosion of the city wall, there is no need to worry that the Jiaozhi people will come to block the gap. I have already arranged that once the city wall is blown up, the floating bridge will be installed on the moat. How many people in Jiaozhi guard the city? How dare they compare with us!"

"It's up to you to arrange it. If you are going to fight, you will be doing some things."
Chapter completed!