Nine War Elephants 5

Ugo was stunned for a moment and said, "What about Jiaozhi?" I heard that Jiaozhi is planning to send reinforcements to Gao Jianming, and the Jiaozhi army will not also be a group of Wuzhi. \\”

Yang Yan smiled: "That's right, in fact, I'm just waiting for the arrival of Jiaozhi's people." As soon as the men arrived, we immediately sent our troops. ”

As soon as he said this, the three people present were stunned, and Liu Ren said first: "Lord Yang, I don't understand, since ancient times, the way to use troops has been to take advantage of the time when the forces are not concentrated, and break them one by one, but the adults seem to be deliberately giving time for Gao Jianming to concentrate the army, this is against the way of using troops, I don't know why the adults do this?" ”

Yang Yan then said: "Even if General Liu asked here, I will tell the truth, I was ordered to aid Dali, and it should be a quick battle, if Dali City is captured now, Gao Jianming will definitely flee to other places, continue to resist stubbornly, and even flee to Jiaozhi to hide, and wait for us to leave, and then come to embarrass Dali, and there will be no peace." Now Gao Jianming has transferred all his troops together with Jiaozhi reinforcements to Dali City, and gathered together, we can just finish our work in one battle, this battle not only to destroy all the forces of Gao Jianming, but also to hit Jiaozhi hard, after the success of this battle, Dali can never suffer in the future. We can also go back to Da Song with peace of mind. Do you understand? ”

Only then did the three of them understand Yang Yan's intentions, and this could indeed be done in one battle, and they could eliminate Gao Jianming's forces in one battle, but it was also very risky, because the opponent had gathered the largest number of troops in Yijing, and it was not so easy to be defeated. However, Yang Yan dared to do this, which showed that he had absolute confidence in his ability.

Liu Jianhe knew that Yang Yan was determined, and it would be useless even if he objected, but he finally understood Yang Yan's intentions, and he also had an explanation in Duan Zhixing's star, and Wu Ge shook his head again and again, but he didn't speak.

At this time, Yang Yancai said: "Old General Liu, I think you should go back and have a look first, lest Patriarch A Huinan really get angry and lead the troops away." ”

This really reminded Liu Jianhe, and hurriedly said goodbye and returned to the camp on the east bank, and sure enough, he saw that Ah Huinan was reorganizing the army and preparing to leave. Liu Jianhe hurriedly went up to stop it, and Ugo Tu was also on the side to help persuade him.

In fact, although Ah Huinan is impatient, he must also be the patriarch of the first department, and he also knows in his heart that the Wuman Department has an enmity with the Gao clan, and the current situation is gradually falling to the side of the Duan clan. However, I really couldn't get off the stage just now, so I had to make a show of leading people to leave, and now Liu Jianhe and Ugo suddenly came over to persuade them, and they just took the opportunity to step down, so they still stayed.

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At this time, Jiaozhi was also arguing in China about whether to continue to aid Gao Jianming.

After Chief Ruan returned to Jiaozhi recently, he did not dare to hide it, and told the story of the two defeats to the king of Jiaozhi in detail, Li Tianzuo. Li Tianzuo was also taken aback after hearing this, he had already taken Dali with the warp as soon as he was about to defeat him, but he never expected that as soon as the Song army sent troops, it only took two battles to kill the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition armies, and the 30,000 or 40,000 horses were almost wiped out. Li Tianzuo immediately gathered the ministers to discuss whether they should continue to assist Gao Jianming.

In order to cover up his defeat, Chief Ruan also exaggerated when he recounted, saying that the Song army was extremely powerful and difficult to defeat. His words also frightened many Jiaozhi ministers, and they all said to Li Tianzuo that now that the Great Song Dynasty has interfered in the affairs of Dali with the classics, how can it compete with the Great Song Dynasty with the national strength of Jiaozhi, and it is unwise to support Gao Jianming again, and he should withdraw the Jiaozhi people and wait for other opportunities. However, most of these people are civil servants of Cochin.

Li Quancheng believes that the Song Dynasty has been using troops from the north and south all these years, and the national strength is also very tired, and the army that assisted Dali is only more than 30,000 people, indicating that the Song Dynasty does not have the strength to aid Dali on a large scale now, and it can be dealt with with with the strength of Jiaozhi. This failure was largely due to the incompetence of Gao Jianming and Ruan Chieftain's command. And Jiaozhi also invested a lot of strength in Dali, but regardless of Shang Jianming, the previous investment was all in vain, so no matter what, we have to fight for this while, once we defeat the Song army and take Dali, Jiaozhi's national strength can be doubled, so that it can also compete with the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, the crown prince Li Quancheng also took the initiative to ask for an order, asking to personally lead the army to aid Gao Jianming and fight a decisive battle with the Song army. The two factions expressed their own opinions and argued.

Li Tianzuo thought about it again and again, and finally decided to continue to help Gao Jianming. Because he also knows that the Song Dynasty has been using troops from the north and south in the past few years, and this time the aid to Dali is very strong, once the Song Dynasty recovers its national strength, it will be difficult to find such an opportunity, so this time it will be difficult to fight no matter what.

After the decision, Li Tianzuo immediately arranged to send troops, and the soldiers of Jiaozhi and the country were only about 100,000 horses, and the last time Ruan Chieftain took away 20,000 horses and horses, and at least 30,000 or 40,000 horses should be left in the country to defend the border and protect the security of Thang Long and all places.

And now Cao Xun has been ordered by Yang Yan to Chen soldiers on the front line of Yongping and Langshan on the border between the two countries. Although there were only more than 10,000 people, they set up a stockade that could accommodate an army of 50,000, and more than 30,000 straw men were planted in the stockade to make up the number. But Jiaozhi does not know the truth in China, so naturally he does not dare to be careless. Li Tianzuo ordered the general Ruan Shoujie to lead 15,000 troops to Langshan to guard against the Song army. Therefore, now there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people in Jiaozhi who can send assistance to Gao Jianming.

However, after more than ten years of accumulation by Li Tianzuo, Jiaozhi has saved an elephant army of more than 1,000 heads. This is also Li Tianzuo's biggest reliance. In the past ten years, Cochin has been able to dominate the southwest region, and it is all thanks to this elephant army. However, in the past, Jiaozhi had bought a hundred elephants from Gao Jianming, and this time he sent Ruan Shoujie to Shoulang Mountain to pull out a hundred elephants for him. At present, there are more than 800 elephants in the country. But this is still a force to be reckoned with.

After some deliberation, it was decided that the commander of the troops was naturally the crown prince Li Quancheng, the deputy commander was Li Xuande, and the generals Han Yi, Zhang Dianchen, Jiao Zhijuan, and Ruan Chieftains were near. led 15,000 men and horses, and 200 war elephants entered Dali first to aid Gao Jianming. Then Li Tianzuo issued another order to urgently expand the army by 30,000 in the country to prevent unforeseen changes.