Yang Yan approached them to the camp, and Liu Jianhe asked: "Lord Yang, since we have all hit the vicinity of Dali City, why don't we continue to attack Dali City, even if we don't attack Dali City, we should also put Dazhai under Dali City, why would we retreat here?" ”

Yang Yan smiled slightly, and said: "Lord Liu, although we have hit the vicinity of Dali City, it is only a lone army when we chased the defeated army, so naturally we can't stop under Dali City for a long time." \\”

Zhao Yang said: "Then Lord Yang should bring the army to Dali City to respond, and he should not retreat." ”

Yang Yan said: "If the army is rooted under the city of Dali, our battle line is too long, and the Weichu Mansion, Yunnan Zhen, Nanjian, Kainan, and Baiyazhi along the way are still in the hands of Gao Jianming. That's why I put the people and horses on the riverside of the Lishe River, which is closer to the Shanyan Mansion, convenient for transporting grain, and here is the main road to the folding, to the north can attack Dali City, to the south can attack Xiushan County, it is the place where troops are used. What's more, Gao Jianming still has 300 war elephants in his hands, and the weapons I use to deal with war elephants have not yet been transported to Dali, so I camped here and waited for my rear team to arrive in Dali. ”

Wei Changgui couldn't help but say: "But Lord Yang, this will undoubtedly give Gao Jianming a chance to breathe, he can have enough time to regroup his people, and even ask Jiaozhi for help, at that time, it will not be easy to deal with." ”

Yang Yan said lightly: "I know that you all want to recover Dali City quickly, but many things are often rushed but not reached. Rest assured, in my opinion, the time to capture Dali City is not yet the time, once the time comes, it is easy to take Dali City, so you don't have to worry, first stationed here, wait and see what happens. ”

As soon as Yang Yan said this, Liu Jianhe, Zhao Yang, and Wei Changgui couldn't say anything more, so they had to leave and return to the East Coast camp. Liu Jianhe asked someone to send the cattle and sheep wine over, but Yang Yan was not polite, and collected all these things according to the plate and scattered them to the soldiers.

In this way, after ten days in a row, the rear team of the Song army finally arrived in Dali with all kinds of baggage and came to the Dasuge of the Lishe River. The rear team of the Song army was the right army of the infantry army, and the commander was Wang Guan, who brought not only various utensils, but also the twelve elephants. And Chen Liang and Wei Chang also came to Dali together.

It turned out that after Lin'an sent officials to take over Qiongzhou, Chen Liang went to Guangzhou, originally planning to help Zhao Qianru deal with pirates, but Zhao Qianru saw that the officials in Guangzhou had Yue Lin and Zhao Ruyu, and the senators relied on Wenzheng and Dong Yuan, and the manpower was enough. \\ And Yang Yan went to Dali, but there was no effective clerical helper by his side, so he asked Chen Liang to work hard and go to Dali to help Yang Yan. Chen Liang naturally readily agreed, and at this time, the right army of the infantry division of Jingjiang Mansion was also ready to come out, so Chen Liang went to Dali with them. And Wei Chang brought not only his two eagles, but also the special weapons that Yang Yan arranged for him to make when he was in Lin'an.

As soon as Yang Yan saw Wei Chang, he immediately asked him, "Wei Jian Cheng, how is that thing doing?" ”

Wei Chang said: "Don't worry, my lord, fifty-eight planes have been made in Yijing, and all of them have been shipped this time, but I don't know if the elephants are ready." ”

Yang Yan nodded, and immediately sent someone to find Liu Renxian and asked him to transfer all the elephants in Dali to the camp of the Song army. Because this batch of elephants was made by Yang Yan as early as Lin'an, although the monarchs and ministers of Dali did not know what Yang Yan wanted these elephants for, but they did not dare to slack off on Yang Yan's requirements, and they were all ready, at this time all the elephants were raised in Shicheng County, so as soon as Liu Renxian received Yang Yan's order, he immediately sent someone back to bring the elephants over.

At this time, Chen Liang took out a letter, handed it to Yang Yan, and said with a smile: "Master Pony, this is a letter from the princess to your lord." ”

Yang Yan was stunned at first, immediately took the letter, opened it and saw that there was nothing serious, just some language such as safety and security, but his wife's concern for him still made Yang Yan feel very warm.

A few days later, the elephants were all sent to the camp of the Song army, a total of forty-six, plus the twelve brought by the Song army, a total of fifty-eight. After the elephants arrived, Wei Chang immediately started his work, but everything was very secret, not only the Dali army, but even most of the Song army didn't know what these elephants were used for?

At this time, the spies came to report, Gao Jianxun finally got through the leaders of more than ten tribes through persuasion and promise, coercion and inducement and other means, and was willing to send troops to help, and a total of 15,000 or 6,000 soldiers were gathered, and Gao Jianming's side mobilized all the soldiers that could be used in all the places he occupied, and at the same time recruited some young and strong people to join the army, so that nearly 20,000 soldiers were gathered one after another. Now in Dali City, Gao Jianming's people have more than 50,000 people.

Now Gao Jianming is reorganizing these new armies, while waiting for Jiaozhi to come. However, with these more than 50,000 troops, Gao Jianming has a lot of confidence, although he still does not dare to come out in Dali City, but from time to time he also sends one or two small troops to explore the reality of the Song army.

However, Yang Yan didn't care about these small groups of tentative people, as long as they didn't approach the fifty miles around the big camp, he wouldn't pay attention to them.

Now, with the Song army's two great victories over the Jiaozhi and Gao coalition armies, many tribes that had originally remained neutral have stood on the side of Dali, and even many tribes have taken the initiative to come to help in the war, and gathered seven or eight thousand people, Duan Zhixing asked them all to go to the Lishe River to listen to Yang Yan's arrangement. Yang Yan arranged for all these horses to be stationed on the east bank of the Lishe River, and handed them over to Liu Jianhe for management. As soon as these tribesmen and horses arrived at the Lishe River, they were all high-spirited, shouting that they were going to attack Dali City and capture Gao Jianming alive, and kept asking Liu Jianhe why he was still standing here.

It made Liu Jianhe very embarrassed, because he was the general of Dali's Zhenguo and held the power of the army, so he couldn't tell these patriarchs that Ran Yangyan had the final say when to march. I had to support it and push it off again and again. Fortunately, Liu Renxian repeatedly persuaded his father, saying that Yang Yan must have his own arrangements if he did not move like this, so he didn't have to worry too much. At the same time, you can also use this time to train your new recruits.

Time passed day by day, Yang Yan still stood still, and he had no intention of sending troops. But Liu Jianhe couldn't hold his breath anymore, because even Duan Zhixing, who was in Shicheng County, sent someone to ask Liu Jianhe when Yang Yan planned to send troops to attack Dali City. After receiving Duan Zhixing's letter, Liu Jianhe didn't dare to be perfunctory anymore, so he took Liu Renxian, the patriarch of some tribes, Wu Getu, and the patriarch of the Wuman tribe, A Huinan, to cross the river together and came to the camp of the Song army to find Yang Yan.

In fact, now the Dali army on the east bank of the Lishe River and the men and horses from various departments have 15,600 people, but Yang Yan knows that except for the 3,000 soldiers of the Dali army who were the first Liu Renxian, the others are just temporarily recruited rabble, and they must not be counted on when fighting. Therefore, they were all arranged on the east bank of the Lishe River and left to Liu Jianhe, Liu Renxian and his son to manage.

However, seeing them coming, Yang Yan still politely took them into his own camp, as soon as he entered the camp, as soon as he sat down, Liu Jianhe asked: "Lord Yang, you said earlier that you could start attacking Dali City when the rear team of the Song army arrived, but now that the rear team has been going through several days, may I ask when General Yang plans to attack Dali City." ”

Yang Yan smiled slightly and said, "I'm not busy, I said that when the time is ripe, I will naturally go to the army." ”

Liu Jianhe has not yet spoken, the patriarch of some tribes, Wu Getu, and the patriarch of the Wuman tribe, A Huinan, are impatient, and the tribes and the Wuman tribe have always been at odds with the Gao clan, and they are also the first tribes in Dali to take refuge in the Duan clan, so whether it is Duan Zhixing, Liu Jianhe, and Gan Hua, they are very polite to them, and they always tolerate three points in everything, which also makes these two people quite arrogant. In addition, they had never seen how Yang Yan defeated Gao Jianming, so they were very dissatisfied with Yang Yan's attitude.

Ah Huinan said: "Lord Yang, I don't know when the time is ripe, when it will be, we now have an army of forty or fifty thousand people, I think the time is ripe now, and we should be able to attack Dali City." ”

Yang Yan glanced at him and said, "If Patriarch Ahuinan thinks that the time is really ripe, he might as well lead the army to attack Dali City, and I will never stop it." ”

Ah Huinan suddenly choked, there were only more than 2,000 people under his subordinates, so how could he attack Dali City? couldn't help but be a little annoyed, his temperament was already very impatient, and he suddenly said angrily: "I led people here to fight Gao Jianming, if you still don't move like this, then I'll lead the people back." ”

Yang Yan said lightly: "Come and go freely, Patriarch Ahuinan, please take care of yourself." ”

Ah Huinan was stunned, flicked his sleeves angrily, and turned out of the big tent. The atmosphere in the tent was very awkward all of a sudden, and Liu Jianhe and Liu Renxian, father and son, were also stunned. The patriarch of these tribes, Wu Getu, was quite tactful, and said: "Lord Yang, I heard that Gao Jianming is gathering people now, and it is said that there are not more than 50,000 or 60,000 people gathered in Yijing, and we are still holding our troops like this, don't we just give Gao Jianming enough time?" ”

Yang Yan nodded and said: "Patriarch Wugetu, it is true that Gao Jianming is gathering people, but the soldiers are expensive but not expensive, most of the people and horses that Gao Jianming is gathering now are errand soldiers from all over the country, the militia, and many of them are conscripted people, such people are just a group of rabble, the more gathered, the better, even if there are five or six hundred thousand, there is no need to be afraid." ”