After Yan Agu freed his hands, the first person to clean up was not Tang Ning, but Guo Cheng.

Yunzhou is located in the westernmost part of the sixteen states of Yanyun, Tangning is now in Xinzhou, and there are still hundreds of miles between Yunzhou.

Shuozhou and Yingzhou are relatively close.

Moreover, Yunzhou is the Datong Mansion of Liao, and the two countries of Liao and Jin fought fiercely here, and Wanyan is still very confident in the strength of the defense system here.

Even if he couldn't solve Guo Cheng's problem in the first place, Tang Ning would not be able to capture Yunzhou during this time.

Therefore, after leaving 100,000 troops and deploying them in Yunzhou and the surrounding counties, he took the rest of the soldiers to the south and went straight to Guo Cheng.

Guo Cheng, who had long expected this day, had already deployed a whole defensive front in Shuozhou, Yingzhou, and Huanzhou.

Taking advantage of the time when Wanyan Agu had no time to go south, Guo Cheng built more than 20 walled forts in these three places, relying on each other, not seeking to be able to defeat Wanyan Agu's army, at least delaying him here for a while.

When Yan Agu's division went south, Tang Ning was fighting a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers in Xinzhou.

The battle broke out very suddenly, and both sides were a little caught off guard.

It seems that they have been instructed by Wanyan Aguta that the defenders of New State do not intend to continue to defend the city.

In February, when the weather was a little warmer, they prepared to sail westward from the newly thawed Sanggan River into Yunzhou to assist the defenders of Yunzhou in intercepting the Song army there.

However, Tang Ning also sat on this plan, and he sent soldiers to go straight to the territory of Xinzhou by boat from the Sanggan River, so the two armies came face to face here.

The battle was fierce, and the blood stained the entire Sanggan River into a river of blood that could not be seen at a glance. The corpses of the soldiers, regardless of Song and Jin, were soaked in the Sanggan River and floated down the current to the lower reaches of the Sanggan River.

Tang Ning led the rest of the troops to hurry up, and finally arrived at the battlefield when the vanguard could not resist.

Because the Jin soldiers had no hope of retreating and could not continue to defend the city, they simply broke the jar and broke it, and had a decisive battle with the Song army here.

The desire to win on both sides was very strong, and the battle was extremely tense. The battle on the banks of the Sangan River lasted for three days.

Corpses were everywhere, and the Jin soldiers guarded a slope and engaged in a tug-of-war with the Song army here. The Song army captured this slope sixteen times in three days, but it was all taken again by the counteroffensive of the Jin army.

There are also Jin cavalry attacking the Song army on the flank, although it did not cause much damage, but there is a fly flying around your ear, and maybe it will bite you, which is really a headache.

After two more days of fighting, both sides were exhausted, and the Song army had already suffered about 20,000 casualties.

Just when Downing thought that this troublesome war was going to last forever, supplies from within the country arrived.

After Zhuozhou and Yanzhou were taken down, transportation became very convenient. The supplies from the interior arrived in Zhuozhou through the Yongji Canal, and then transported to Tangning's location via the Sanggan River.

The whole process only takes more than ten days, and before that, it is not possible to rely on it, and the team transporting grain and grass even has to set off three months in advance.

With a new supply of gunpowder, the Song army had another voice in positional warfare.

relied on gunpowder to completely defeat the desperate Jin soldiers, and finally firmly controlled Xinzhou in his hands.

In this battle, the Song army killed more than 8,000 people, and the number of wounded soldiers reached 29,000. And that's just those who can't move again, and the lightly wounded ones don't even count.

Of the more than 60,000 Jin soldiers, only 10,000 prisoners remained, and the rest of the army was wiped out, and the water of the Sanggan River was even blocked by corpses for a time.

The 3,000 soldiers who came to transport grain and grass were busy here for six days and six nights before they finished cleaning up the battlefield, but the blood-red Sanggan River seemed to be silently telling something.

Guo Cheng's brains were about to come out, and after Yan Aguda came to the battlefield in person, the more than 20 walled forts he spent on setting up were uprooted by the Jin army within three days.

Now he could only rely on the defenders of a few cities to defend, and Tang Ning was ready to rush to support as soon as he took Ulzhou.

If Wanyan Aguda can really be defeated in the Shuozhou area, then the recovery of Yanyun's sixteen states is a sure thing. If you can't...... I'm afraid I'm going to die here.

Thinking of this, Tang Ning didn't even give his subordinates time to rest. After the end of the Battle of Sinju, he immediately led his army and headed straight for Ulju.

The Ulzhou garrison knew that Tang Ning's troops had just fought in Xinzhou, but he never expected the Song army to come so quickly.

The Ulju area is full of mountains, but there are few rivers in the territory. The city of Ulju is even more guarded by the main traffic arteries, which is extremely steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Tang Ning was in a hurry and didn't have time to play slowly with the defenders in Ulzhou City. So he took out the big killing weapon he had prepared during this time.

He was originally going to use this thing in Yunzhou, but judging from the current situation, Ulzhou is also eligible for this kind of treatment.

Urine may be an inconspicuous thing in life, but it has a lot of significance.

Not only can many diseases be analyzed in urine, but white phosphorus, the devil's weapon, can also be extracted from it.

Tang Ning has been researching this kind of thing for a long time, and when he first opened the Tiangong Academy, he had intentionally or unintentionally hinted at those weirdos in the Tiangong Academy, asking them to help study this thing.

But until the Tiangong Academy was withdrawn by Zhao Ji, they still couldn't study it.

In order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, you must have a ghost card in order to win by surprise.

So along the way, Tang Ning sent someone to collect the urine of the soldiers, and let the alchemists he found test it again and again. Finally, Huang Tian lived up to his wishes, and the alchemist who was nicknamed the 'urethral chief' by the soldiers in the army finally got this thing out.

White phosphorus, as we all know, is flammable and difficult to extinguish, and the gas released during combustion will also cause great harm to the human body.

Tang Ning wanted to use this thing to attack Ulzhou, but Lu Qiren was the first to refuse.

"Handsome! No, I can't! The last general knows that you want to take Ulju City as soon as possible, but there are still innocent people in Ulju City! If there were no people in the city, you would have used this thing, and there would be no difference.

But the people are still in the city, and you use it to attack the city, don't you care whether the people live or die? ”

For the first time, Lu Qiren saw Tang Ning's cold gaze.

"If you want to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, sacrifice is necessary. Time is running out now, and the decisive battle is imminent. As long as we defeat Yan Aguda as soon as possible, there will be one Yunzhou left, which is also in our pocket.

I don't have time to play the game of "come and I stop" with the defenders in Ulju City, I want them to open the gate and surrender as soon as I get to the city gate. ”

"Handsome ......" Lu Qiren muttered, he never thought that these words could come out of Tang Ning's mouth.

Wu Tongzhi looked like he had expected it a long time ago, judging from the fact that he joined the White Lotus Society to intervene in the rebel army, Wu Tongzhi knew that Tang Ning was already an unscrupulous person.

Lu Qiren's persuasion did not have any effect, and at night, 3,000 cavalry ran around the city of Ulzhou, using cyclone cannons on horseback to project clay pots filled with white phosphorus into the city.

At first, there were still some people in the city shouting that the water was gone, and the fire was put out quickly, but when they got to the back, all that was left was screaming.

On this night, the sky of the entire city of Ulju was as bright as day, and the billowing black smoke covered the sky like dark clouds. There were people on fire, screaming and falling from the walls, and the flames continued to burn in the city.

"Is that what you want?" As soon as Lu Qiren closed his eyes, the heart-rending screams in his ears would be doubled. He looked at Tang Ning sadly and said, "Is this the result you want?" ”

Tang Ning's face was flickering and dimming by the light of the fire in Ulju City.

"What's wrong with winning if you do that?"

Tang Ning patted Lu Qiren on the shoulder: "A lot of things, don't take them too seriously." And don't always feel that everyone who helps you or is on your side is a good person.

There are only two things in this world that cannot be looked at, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart. ”

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