"This..." the military doctor hesitated, but he did not dare to tell the truth:

"The villain reported back to King Pu that the Song army used those unknown weapons to shoot out so many iron sands that... His Highness King Pu's left eyeball was broken!"

"His Royal Highness Prince Pu is permanently blind in his left eye!"

"Also, His Highness Prince Pu's upper body was also injured in many places by the iron sand shot by the enemy's strange weapons!"

"Fortunately, King Pu is blessed with good fortune. In addition, our military doctors bandaged His Highness's wound in time and stopped the severe bleeding. Now King Pu can wake up. As long as he is well nursed back to health, His Highness Pu will be able to walk around in two or three months.

Got it!"

The lonely sword-shaped eyebrow on Li Renzhong's right eye frame was frowning, and the right eyebrow was close to the white cloth bandage wrapped diagonally around his eye frame.

"Does it take two or three months for this prince to be able to walk around?"

"It's been too long! I can't worry about the defense of Xijing and other matters!"

"Alas!" the military doctor sighed:

"First of all, it's my fault that our medical skills are not good. We have never encountered such a strange injury as the one suffered by King Pu. We really have no good treatment plan or good medicine!"

"Secondly, our military doctors carefully examined the injuries sustained by His Highness King Pu. After consultation, we found that a lot of the iron sand shot by the enemy had penetrated deeply into His Highness's flesh. We are afraid of causing a second blow to His Highness.

The damage will be even greater, so I don’t dare to take it out now!”

Li Renzhong said feebly: "I know that all the military doctors have tried their best to treat me."

"However, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Gu Gu vows to defend Xijing, the land of Longxing in Daxia, to the death. Therefore, everyone here must declare to the outside world that Gu Gu is only slightly injured and will recover as before in three or two days. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished according to military law.

.”

"We obey the order..."

…

Li Renzhong, who was seriously injured, had no choice but to lie on the bed and summoned a dozen mid-level and senior generals who had been waiting outside.

"Before I was injured, I climbed to the city to watch the Song army outside our Xijing city. Their camps stretched for more than ten miles and surrounded Xijing city impenetrably. However, the Song enemy attacked and wounded me in a sneak attack, but they were not in a hurry.

To attack the city. Why is this?"

The generals replied one after another:

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I believe that the Song army may want to besiege our Xijing City until we are deprived of food and people will die, right?"

"General, I don't think so."

"The general learned from the defeated generals who fled here from Zhejianghui, Pule City and Yaode City that were previously attacked by the Song Army that the Song Army was able to pray to heaven, draw thunder from the sky, and bombard the city."

"Now that the Song army is not in a hurry to attack our Xijing city, could it be that the time to pray for a lightning strike from heaven has not yet arrived?"

"Humph! You are so ignorant, you are really talking nonsense!" Li Renzhong, who was lying on the bed, cursed angrily:

"Destiny is in our country, Daxia, and the Song Dynasty is not strong enough. How can He De let God favor it and help it rain down thunder to punish our country, Daxia, which is so rejuvenated?"

"This..." The general felt it was difficult to explain, so he hesitated and said:

"What the last general said was what I heard from the soldiers and generals who retreated from the front of our country in Daxia! There is no lie at all."

"The Xia soldiers who were previously guarding Zhejianghui, Pule City and Yaode City were lucky enough not to die in the battle. After escaping to our Xijing, according to what they said:

'After they heard several loud noises from the Song Army's position, they saw several balls of fire hitting the city they were guarding, killing people and destroying the city...'"

Li Renzhong immediately stopped him and said: "Don't say such words that shake the morale of the army again."

"Before I was injured, I saw the Song Army taking out a long tubular weapon. Then, the strange weapon burst into flames, and a lot of iron sand hit me."

"Now, I, the king, think about it. What you say can destroy the three cities of Jianghui, Pule City and Yaode City in Daxia, and blow up the cities and destroy the soldiers is not some kind of thunder from the sky. It should be the Song Army using something similar."

A new strange weapon that can breathe fire and shoot iron sand."

"Both are the same, it's just expanded dozens of times."

Everyone nodded in agreement with King Pu's speculation, and at the same time they became even more panicked...

If the Song army can draw thunder from the sky, then does it need a prayer ceremony?

Also, God may not always favor Song Jun, right?

It is possible that the Song army became ineffective when praying to heaven to rain thunder on Xiping Mansion in Xijing, the land of Longxing in the Great Xia Kingdom...

However, according to the reasonable inference of Pu Wang Li Renzhong, if the Song army possesses new heavy weapons that are as effective as lightning strikes, then how can we defend Xijing City in Daxia?

What's more, we heard that the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guan's family, has arrived at our Song army outside Xijing City for his personal expedition. This will definitely boost the hearts and morale of the Song army.

But our Li Renzhong, the king of Pu, who stayed behind in Xijing, was seriously injured and could only lie on the bed. The whole city's soldiers and civilians were panic-stricken!

The Song Army didn't even need to get close to the city, they could use that thunder-like weapon to blow us up...

The arrows fired by our army's bows and arrows could not reach the Song army, and the arrows fired by our army's trebuchets

The stones thrown out could not hit the Song army. Can we, the soldiers and generals guarding the city, just wait to die?

In this battle to defend the city, the weapons were not as strong as the Song enemy, the troops were not as numerous, and the morale was not as high as the Song enemy. How could this battle be won?

The dozen or so generals exchanged glances with each other and tactfully told King Pu the escape strategies they had discussed with each other.

"Prince Qi Pu, the soldiers and civilians in our Xijing City are now in panic. Many soldiers and generals in the whole army want to abandon the city and break out of the siege...

"King Pu, why not take advantage of the Song Dynasty enemy's massive attack on the city and find an opportunity to break out in order to preserve the vitality of our army..."

"Reporting to King Pu, our troops are guarding the North City. We found that the Song army outside the North City is not in order and their military discipline is loose. If King Pu leads us to break through, it is best to choose to come from the North Gate of Xijing..."

"Shut up!" Li Renzhong roared:

"You are so brave! Before fighting, think about the way to escape!"

When he got angry, he was hit by a gunshot wound, which oozed blood and stained several white cloth bandages outside.

"If anyone dares to abandon the city and break out of the siege again, I will kill him without mercy!"

The generals were so frightened that they immediately shut up and did not dare to speak anymore...

"In order to allow the Great Xia court to have time to mobilize various local armies to fight against the Song Dynasty, I swear to the death to coexist with Xijing City!"

The righteousness of Pu Wang Li Renzhong frightened these generals into panic, but they were still worried.

After the generals heard King Pu's statement, he did not dare to talk more to persuade him.

They excused themselves awkwardly, each with their own thoughts, and left Prince Pu's Mansion...

…

On the morning of the next day, Zhao Ji received a military report that the prince, who was staying in the capital to supervise the country, had sent Wang Zhen to lead an army of three thousand to escort supplies of firearms and ammunition to the Song-Xia border in accordance with the official decree.

Zhao Ji immediately sent five generals, Wu Jie, Wu Lin, Yang Zaixing, Wang Gui, and Zhang Xian, each with one thousand troops and horses, totaling five thousand, to meet Wang Zhen's troops to prevent the Xia army from robbing the Song army's ammunition supplies.

…

In the afternoon, twelve envoys from the Xia Kingdom riding fast horses arrived in the dust. They brought a letter written by Xia Emperor Li Qianshun, begging for an armistice and peace.

They wanted to meet Zhao Guanjia, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty who was personally conquering the country.

After receiving the report, Zhao Ji only said lightly:

"Force is the bargaining chip on the negotiation table!"

"I don't see the peace envoys sent by Li Qianshun, so Zhang Jun is responsible for receiving them. It is best to let them stay in our Song Dynasty military camp for a few days, so that they can see how my Song army conquered the Xijing City of Xia Kingdom."

"The territory within the range of my cannon is my territory of China!"

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Chapter completed!