Chief Ruan lay on the battlement and looked out, and said to Gao Jianming beside him: "Master Gao, this is not a way, the Song army is approaching us, if they are forced to the wall, it will not be easy to do, why don't I lead the troops out and fight with the Song army." Book"

Gao Jianming shook his head and said: "No, now that the Song army is in a tight formation, with tower shields in front of it, we will not be able to take advantage of it if we rush out, maybe the Song army is still waiting for us to fight, so that we can rush into the camp by taking advantage of the chaos." ”

Chief Ruan said closely: "What should I do then?" Is it difficult to wait for the Song army to rush to the edge of the camp to attack the camp? ”

Gao Jianming said: "I just want to wait for them to attack the camp, we have the camp wall to protect, what are we afraid of, once the Song army attacks the camp, we just fight according to the wall, at that time it is the Song army attacking, we defend, we have the advantage!" And once the Song army attacks the camp, it will not be able to maintain such a tight formation now, and then we will find an opportunity to rush out of the camp and kill for a while, maybe we can defeat the Song army? ”

Chief Ruan thought about it for a while, felt that what Gao Jianming said was reasonable, and said: "Okay, Master Gao, just do what you say, I will immediately go and transfer a thousand soldiers up, replace the archers, and prepare to defend the city." ”

At this time, the Song army advanced to a distance of less than 50 paces from the camp of the combined forces of Jiaozhi and Gao, and in the camp of the coalition army, the archers on the wall of the wall, Yijing stopped shooting arrows, and gave up the defensive position to pikemen, school swordsmen, etc., preparing to engage in a defensive battle with the Song army. When the coalition army adjusted its defense, the front row of the Song army was only more than thirty steps away from the camp wall, and then the Song army suddenly stopped and stopped shooting.

Gao Jianming was a little confused, why did Song Jun suddenly stop at this time? Is Yang Yan playing any kind of ghost idea again? Gao Jianming's heart is not unreasonable, he used to be the prime minister of Dali, holding the military power for many years, almost every military operation in Dali has his participation, and twice personally led the army, participated in the battle with the surrounding Purui, Mayi, Bagan and other countries, although it is not a big battle, but also made Gao Jianming personally experienced the battlefield, has a certain amount of actual combat experience, plus he has read a lot of military books on weekdays, so he is also a person with considerable military ability, but it is not on paper.

Moreover, after learning that the Great Song Dynasty decided to come to the aid of Dali, and the commander of the Song army who assisted Dali was named Yang Yan, Gao Jianming knew the truth of "knowing the other and not being defeated in a hundred battles", so he also sent people to infiltrate Guangnan to inquire about Yang Yan's situation, and he was to investigate Yang Yan's ability to use troops. Although he did not inquire about all the circumstances of Yang Yan clearly, he also knew that he was the grandson of Yang Yizhong, a famous general of the Song Dynasty, and began to emerge in the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty two years ago. Then all the way to the official luck, at the age of twenty-two, he was promoted to the official envoy, not only recruited by the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty as a concubine, but also from last year, was ordered to quell the Manichaean rebellion in Quang Nam.

Since Dali is adjacent to Guangnan and is also a new birth, the spies sent by Gao Jianming inquired about the process of Yang Yan's pacification of Manichaeism quite carefully. Gao Jianming has only appeared, don't look at Yang Yan's age, but he has not lost a single battle in the dozen battles of the Manichaean Church, and every battle is ingenious, unreasonable, elusive, and wonderful, which is breathtaking. It is indeed worthy of the words "using soldiers like gods".

Moreover, as soon as Yang Yan arrived in Dali, he broke the three-way attack of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces, which shows that this person does have some real skills, and he did not rely on the grace of his family to rise to this point. Therefore, Gao Jianming didn't dare to despise Yang Yan, and now when he saw Song Jun approaching the wall, he suddenly stopped, and immediately wondered if Yang Yan had another trick.

However, Song Jun didn't let Gao Jianming think about it much, so he immediately took a new action.

I saw more than a hundred black things thrown out of the Song army's formation, and fell towards the camp of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition armies. It's just that it's too dark, and under the firelight, I can't see what it is.

"What did Song Jun throw?" This sentence flashed in Gao Jianming's mind, but he immediately understood, only to see that as soon as this thing fell to the ground, a fierce fire would immediately ignite on the tent and the camp wall, which would not be extinguished for a long time, although there were only more than a hundred, but after falling into the camp, compared to the rocket just now, the burning strength was not known how many times stronger.

"This is a fierce oil bomb, and the Song army is a fierce oil bomb." Gao Jianming has read a lot of books, and he immediately knows what this thing is, and he immediately knows the intentions of Song Jun tonight.

Oil bomb is a kind of firearm that uses thick paper as a shell and contains fire oil, which is used to burn the enemy and burn the combat equipment when hitting the target. And because it is burned with oil, it is not easy to extinguish once it is burned.

The Song army sent troops to Dali this time, and also brought a large number of firearms, but they were all in the baggage team, and they had not yet been sent to Dali, but they were afraid of encountering the elephant army, so the brigade carried some firearms, including 500 fierce oil bombs. However, since the bed crossbow for firing heavy oil bombs had not yet arrived, and the soldiers could only throw them by hand, the attack distance was only about 30 to 40 paces. And what Yang Yan did tonight was actually just to send the soldiers who threw the oil bombs to a suitable attack location, so that they could throw the oil bombs into the camp of the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition forces.

Although Gao Jianming understood Yang Yan's intentions, it was too late, and then the second wave of Song Jun's fierce oil bombs was thrown out. The camp of the combined forces of Jiaozhi and Gao was suddenly filled with fire, and the intensity and density of the burning were many times stronger than just now, and the tents, flags, vehicles, and some soldiers were all on fire. Moreover, a considerable part of the heavy oil bombs fell on the camp wall, which was originally made of logs, and suddenly more than a dozen fires were ignited, and no matter how they were extinguished, they could not be extinguished. The defenders on the camp wall jumped off the camp wall one after another and took refuge in all directions.

After the third wave of the Song army's heavy oil bombs were thrown, the front camp of the Jiaozhi and Gao's combined forces almost became a sea of fire, and the soldiers who had been stabilized were also panicked at this time, busy fighting the fire. At this time, the archers of the Song army began to shoot arrows again, and the coalition army was too busy to forget everything in order to put out the fire, and was defenseless, so when the arrows fell, it immediately caused a large number of casualties among the coalition forces.

Gao Jianming, under the protection of more than a dozen personal guards, escaped from the camp wall where the fire was ignited, and calmed down, although he didn't know how many fierce oil bombs the Song army still had, but Gao Jianming knew very well in his heart that if the Song army was allowed to throw heavy oil bombs into the camp so casually, he could only open the camp and fight with the Song army at this time. Hurriedly found Chief Ruan and said, "General Ruan, you immediately lead the men and horses out of the camp and fight with the Song army." ”