In the battle of Yunyuan, the Song army killed 7,000 people and captured as many as 3,000 people, winning a complete victory. After Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the river of Lishe in Chuxu, the remaining soldiers were counted and counted as less than 5,000 people. The two were shocked and frightened, they didn't expect the Song army's combat effectiveness to be so strong, and they thought that the Song army would take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Dali City, so they hurriedly sent people to transfer back the men and horses on the left and right roads to defend the Lishe River to protect Dali City. At the same time, he ordered someone to report urgently to Gao Jianming in Dali City, asking him to quickly send reinforcements to support.

After learning the news of the defeat of the Central Route Army, the coalition forces on the left and right also hesitated, not knowing whether to continue to move forward or retreat. However, after receiving the order of Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan to retreat, he immediately turned around and returned to Xuchu to join forces with Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan.

After the combined army, the combined army of Jiaozhi and Gao still had nearly 30,000 horses, and the number was still more than twice that of the Song army stationed in the Aning Department, but Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan were afraid of the courage of the Song army, and did not dare to attack easily, but just stood by the Lishe River in the early days, waiting for Gao Jianming's reinforcements, and even hoped that Gao Jianming could bring the elephant army.

After Gao Jianming received the news of the defeat, he was also surprised, he knew that Gao Jianxun and Ruan Chief were both famous generals in the southwest, and he never imagined that he would be defeated so badly under the Song army, so he personally led 5,000 men and horses to Xuchu, and after seeing Gao Jianxun and Ruan Chief, he inquired in detail about the history of the first battle of Yunyuan.

Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan naturally told Gao Jianming in detail about the battle, and emphasized how terrible the Song army's Jujia cavalry was, believing that only the elephant army could deal with the Song army's Jujia cavalry. \\ Therefore, he asked Gao Jianming to transfer the elephant army to participate in the war. However, after hearing this, the other generals were a little unimpressed, thinking that the two were overexaggerating the strength of the Song army, and they were actually making excuses for this defeat.

But Gao Jianming also has a little knowledge, to also heard that the Jin State used a kind of cavalry called "Tiefutu" when attacking the Song State in the past, it is said that this kind of cavalry is very powerful, and now the Song Dynasty has probably also established its own "Tiefutu", which is used in Dali. Therefore, he did not blame Gao Jianxun and Ruan Chieftain too much.

Gao Jianming's original war elephants were more than 100, and since the army against Dali, they have collected them in many ways, and now they have increased to more than 100, and they have spent a lot of money to buy 100 war elephants from Jiaozhi. These more than 300 war elephants are Gao Jianming's trump card, and they are handed over to his son Gao Jineng to lead, and they will not be used easily. Because this time the soldiers attacked the Aning Department was a siege war, the war elephants played a little role in the siege warfare, and in terms of troops, the Jiaozhi and Gao's coalition forces also had an absolute advantage, so Gao Jianming did not dispatch the war elephants.

But listening to what Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan said recently, Gao Jianming also knew that it was time to use this trump card powerhouse, so he immediately ordered to send people back to Dali City, and ordered Gao Ji to quickly lead the elephant army to Xuchu to join the army. At the same time, he sent people to each tribe that belonged to him to give orders, asking them to come to help in the war.

At the same time, Gao Jianming also knew that the people of the Song Dynasty had arrived in Dali, even if there was an elephant army to help them fight, they might not be able to win lightly, and they were afraid that they would fight a protracted war with the Song army, so they built a camp by the Lishe River, while defending it tightly, and waiting for the elephant army and other tribes to arrive, and then fighting to the death with the Song army.

The news of the victory of the Song army spread to Shicheng County, especially after the capture of the three thousand captured Jiaozhi and the Gao coalition army was also taken to Shicheng County, the monarchs and ministers of Dali were ecstatic, since Gao Jianming raised an army against Dali, there has never been such a brilliant result. And the ministers who were dissatisfied with Yang Yan's proposal to take full control of military power as soon as he arrived in Dali had nothing to say at this time.

And Yijing took refuge in Dali, and the two departments of Wuman met, and they were also full of confidence in Dali's recovery, and some of them immediately came to help with 1,000 men and horses, and the Wuman Department also came with 1,500 men and horses to help in the war.

At this time, the Song army's infantry division, the left army, the Guangxi army, the rear army, and the Youyi soldiers and horses finally arrived in Dali and arrived in Shicheng County. Duan Zhixing was very happy to see the arrival of the Song army's brigade, and immediately decided to send Liu Jianhe to lead some people, Wuman and Dali, a total of 4,000, to follow the Song army's brigade and live in the Aning Department to help in the battle.

At this time, the Song army that entered Dali had a total of six armies, totaling more than 27,000 people, only escorting twelve elephants and quartermasters, equipment, Zizhong, grain and grass and other things The five cadres of the rear army of the infantry army have not yet arrived, and the Dali army gathered in the Aning Department has 12,000 men and horses, and the Ma Junsi Zhongjun and the Xuanfeng army that entered Dali in advance have also completed their rest, at this time it is the time when the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, Yang Yan immediately ordered, leaving Liu Jianhe with 7,000 Dali troops to stay in the Aning Department, Let Liu Renxian lead the 5,000 Dali army to follow the Song army to the Lishe River.

After arriving at the Lishe River, the combined forces of Jiaozhi and the Gao clan set up a camp in Yijing, and Yang Yan ordered the Song army to go down to the village while personally looking for the high ground to watch the arrangement of the coalition army.

I saw that the combined forces of Jiaozhi and Gao were camped with their backs to the Lishe River, and the camp walls were densely arranged with wooden piles thick at the mouth of the bowl, which were more than one zhang high and very strong. Although camping on the back of the water was a taboo in the art of war, the coalition forces built nine pontoon bridges over the Lishe River to ensure that there was a way back in the event of unfavorable warfare, and two arrow towers were built at both ends of each pontoon bridge, which could not only hold the pontoon bridges, but also cover the coalition forces to cross the river when necessary.

Moreover, the Jiaozhi and Gao's coalition forces are also divided into two parts, stationed on both sides of the Lishe River, on the east bank of the Lishe River and the Song army is the main force of the coalition army, about 30,000 horses, and on the west bank of the Lishe River is the military supplies, equipment, weight, grain and grass of the coalition army, guarded by 5,000 men and horses.

It turned out that Gao Jianming listened to the report of Gao Jianxun and Chief Ruan, and was afraid that the Song army would attack from behind his back, so he adopted such a method of camping behind the water to prevent the Song army from going around his back again, and at the same time built nine pontoon bridges on the river and arranged arrow towers, so that in case of defeat to the Song army, he could use the arrow towers to cover and retreat to the west bank of the Lishe River.

The Lishe River is wider in a radius of more than 100 miles, more than 200 steps, and it is impossible to cross it without rafts and other means of crossing the river. Therefore, the Lishe River has also virtually become a barrier for the allied army's military rations.