.

Yang Yan smiled slightly and said, "During this period of time, Your Majesty has taken very good care of the foreign ministers and others, and has also rewarded a lot of property, how dare you ask for anything more?" What's more, the foreign minister still has official business to deal with in Guangnan, and he does not dare to stay in Dali for more, I hope His Majesty will forgive me. The chapter was uploaded by netizens, and the network hereby affirms"

Duan Zhixing heard this, and knew that he couldn't keep Yang Yan, so he said: "Okay, five days later, I will personally set up a banquet on the Golden Palace to serve Yang Yuma and the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

After Yang Yan retired, Duan Zhixing immediately sent a decree to ascend to the palace, recruited the ministers of civil and military affairs, and discussed together how the Song army was going to attack Jiaozhi and how Dali should act.

Although Gan Hua and Liu Jianhe were very disappointed with Duan Zhixing's behavior, after all, they were discussing national affairs, and this was Duan Zhixing's initiative to ascend to the palace to recruit ministers to discuss matters, which showed that he had not yet been fooled to the end, so the two immediately proposed in the palace that Dali should also send troops to cooperate with the Song army, attack Jiaozhi, and cut down the Gao clan and wipe it out.

Duan Zhixing asked the opinions of others again, and the three newly appointed ministers, Huang Qishan, Qian Zhiqiao, and Zou Pingzhu, also sent troops to cooperate with the Song army to attack Jiaozhi, get rid of Gao Jianming, and never suffer in the future. Duan Zhixing was very happy to hear this, thinking that the few of them were indeed grateful for their kindness now, and they wholeheartedly supported themselves.

In fact, Huang Qishan, Qian Zhiqiao, and Zou Pingzhu all know in their hearts that their current behavior is tantamount to betraying the Gao family by Yijing, if Gao Jianming kills him again, he is afraid that he will take his own life first, and they don't expect Gao Jianming to be like Duan Zhixing and spare himself again, so getting rid of Gao Jianming is also to eliminate a future trouble for themselves.

Since the ministers of civil and military affairs agreed to send troops, Duan Zhixing ordered Liu Renxian to be the commander of Dali this time, leading 20,000 Dali men and horses to attack Dali with the Song army. Of course, everything is up to Yang Yan to arrange and dispatch. At the same time, he ordered Gan Hua to raise grain and grass materials to ensure the supply of the army. Although Liu Renxian was a little surprised by this appointment, he still received the order and thanked him and went back to prepare.

It turned out that Duan Zhixing had discussed with Gonggong Ning in the palace that the soldiers must be dispatched, and the main general of the troops was Liu Renxian. First, because Duan Zhixing still trusts the Liu family father and son very much, and at present, only the Liu family father and son have the ability to lead the army in Dali, and secondly, Duan Zhixing also knows that his appointment of Huang Qishan, Qian Zhiqiao, and Zou Pingzhu will definitely cause dissatisfaction among those ministers who fled with him, just take this opportunity to appease these ministers, and thirdly, Liu Renxian and Yang Yan have a good relationship, if they use others, they are afraid of causing Yang Yan to be dissatisfied. If Yang Yan gets angry, then the consequences will be serious.

And Gonggong Ning also knows that although he has gained Duan Zhixing's trust again, he can't offend these ministers who fled with Duan Zhixing at present, on the contrary, he should try his best to show goodwill, so that he can meet the source left and right, so he also strongly agrees with Duan Zhixing's decision. Therefore, five days later, the Song army and the Dali army went out together.

The army marched all the way to the southwest, and five days later reached the Song army Dazhai by the Heishui River, where Liu Fuwu, Zhang Shiyan, and Yin Shibiao came out of the camp to meet Yang Yan.

After entering the camp, Liu Fuwu reported to Yang Yan that in the battle of Heishui River, the Song army won a complete victory, and there were no less than 5,000 captured soldiers of the Jiaozhi and Gaodi coalition forces, and now they are all guarded in the village, and 91 elephants have been captured, and they are also fed with the original elephants in the camp, and there are 122 dead elephants. But now the dead elephants have been disposed of, and the skins, bones, and tusks have been preserved by classification.

After Zhang Shiyan led the men and horses of his headquarters and the elephant army to the Heishui River camp, he gathered all the elephants and formed an army. Now plus the forty-six elephants that originally belonged to Dali, the Song army has a total of one hundred and eighty-six elephants, as early as before coming to Dali, the Song army has trained two hundred soldiers to ride elephants, but now the number is far from enough, Zhang Shiyan pulled out three hundred soldiers, for elephant riding training, after more than a month of training, these soldiers have basically mastered the method of controlling elephants, and now the elephant army of the Song army has a scale at the beginning.

Yang Yan didn't care about anything else, but seeing that so many elephants had been captured, the elephant army was also very happy. Immediately, the elephant army was temporarily merged into the Ma Jun Division of the Central Army and handed over to Zhang Shiyan for management, and then Yang Yan handed over all the prisoners to the Dali army for disposal. After Liu Ren received these prisoners, he sent a deputy general with 3,000 men and horses to escort the prisoners back to Dali City.

After dealing with these things, the army rested by the Heishui River for two days, and immediately set up camp, crossed the Heishui River, and went south along the river, heading towards Jiaozhi.

As early as after Yang Yan received Lin'an's edict, he ordered people to return to Guangnan of the Great Song Dynasty and ordered Cao Xun, who was stationed on the border of Jiaozhi, to immediately attack Langshan. After Cao Xun received Yang Yan's order, he immediately concentrated the infantry army, the middle army, the rear army, and the Guangxi army, including the left army, the right army, and the Shengjie army, with a total of 25,000 men and horses, and launched an attack on Langshan. Fortunately, Ruan Shoujie, the general guarding Lang Mountain, was very cautious and defended in danger, so he tried to ensure that Lang Son was not lost, but he could only hold it and was unable to fight back.

At this time, Jiaozhi was also shocked in the country, and the men and horses who sent to help Gao Jianming were almost wiped out, and there were not a few war elephants left, which was a defeat that Jiaozhi had never had in decades. Now that the Song army was stationed in Langshan and Heishuihe, and there was a great momentum of attacking Jiaozhi's country, Li Tianzuo was shocked, angry, and afraid, and immediately summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss what to do next.

Some ministers suggested that now that Jiaozhi and Ben were unable to fight against the Song army, they should immediately make peace with the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, and arrest Gao Jianming and send it to the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Great Song Dynasty would have no excuse to attack Jiaozhi again.

However, Li Quancheng and the general Li Xuande strongly opposed it. Li Quancheng believes that now that the Song army has not invaded Jiaozhi's country, it is too weak to rush to the Great Song Dynasty, and Gao Jianming is here to defect to Jiaozhi, if he is sent to the Song army, he will lose his trust, and who will dare to come to Jiaozhi in the future.

And Li Xuande said on the side: Langshan is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Song army may not be so easy to enter, now it only needs to guard the line of the Heishui River. Moreover, at this time, Yijing entered May, the scorching heat was coming, and the Song army came from afar, and they were bound to be unadaptable. When the time comes, Ao can't stop the scorching heat, and he will definitely withdraw his troops automatically, so he must hold on at this time.

The two of them were ordered to aid Gao Jianming, but they were defeated by the Song army, almost all of them were wiped out, if they made peace with the Great Song Dynasty, then after the peace talks were successful, the two would definitely take responsibility for the defeat, Li Xuande was naturally dismissed, and Li Quancheng was only afraid that he would not be able to keep the position of the prince, only by fighting with the Song army again, it was possible to keep his position, even if it was to defend until the Song army withdrew. Therefore, the two strongly opposed making peace with the Great Song Dynasty and strongly advocated continuing to resist the Song army.

But what they said is not unreasonable, the climate of Cochin in June and July is humid and hot, even the Cochin people who have lived in the local area for a long time can't stand it, let alone the Song army who came from afar? Li Tianzuo thought about it again and again, and finally decided to continue to fight against the Song army. Fortunately, when Li Quancheng sent troops, Li Tianzuo had ordered another 30,000 soldiers to be recruited in the country, and now all the recruits were in place, so Li Tianzuo immediately ordered Li Quancheng and Li Xuande to lead 30,000 horses and 300 war elephants to resist the Song army.

Then Li Tianzuo named Gao Jianming as Nanping Hou, and assigned the Nanping Prefecture of Jiaozhi to Gao Jianming for survival, Nanping Prefecture is located at the junction of Jiaozhi and Dali, and Gao Jianming was placed here, and Gao Jianming was also allowed to help Jiaozhi resist the Song army. At the same time, Li Tianzuo secretly ordered Li Quancheng to watch Gao Jianming, and when necessary, he could also use Gao Jianming as a bargaining chip for peace.

Gao Jianming naturally knows that he has no power and no power now, although he is named the Marquis of Nanping, but in fact, he is like a prisoner, and he may be sacrificed as an abandoned son by Jiaozhi at any time. However, he did not wait to be killed, but actively tried to save himself, sent people to sneak back to Dali, recruited the old department, and really gathered six or seven thousand people and horses, and accumulated a lot of property.

However, at this time, the army of the Song army crossed the Heishui River and entered the territory of Jiaozhi. However, Jiaozhi has long been prepared, in the area of Pingnan Prefecture, repaired many defensive fortifications, deep ditches and high fortifications, and was afraid that the Song army would attack the capital of Jiaozhi State in Thang Long, just like the last sneak attack on Dali City, and sent troops to guard all the main roads leading to Thang Long, and Thang Long also raised its vigilance to prevent the sudden attack of the Song army.

After Yang Yan's army arrived in Pingnan Prefecture, he saw that Jiaozhi was ready, so he set up troops on the bank of the Ming River and confronted each other's Jiaozhi army in Pingnan Prefecture.

Then the Song army immediately went to the camp of the Jiaozhi army to challenge, this time Li Quancheng did not dare to be rampant anymore, and honestly hid in the big village with deep ditches and high bases, and let the Song army challenge and insult him, and did not fight. Waiting for Song Jun Ao wholeheartedly, but he retired from the army in the scorching summer. However, the Song army saw that the defense of the Jiaozhi army was very tight, and it was not easy to attack, but only used long-range weapons such as crossbows to attack the Jiaozhi army, but the Jiaozhi army had already taken precautions, so the threat of the Jiaozhi army was not great.

For more than ten days, the Song army came to challenge in front of the Jiaozhi military camp every day, and when they saw that the Jiaozhi army did not fight, they used crossbow arrows to shoot indiscriminately, but they never sent soldiers to attack. Li Quancheng and Li Xuande were very satisfied, but Gao Jianming was a little puzzled, was it so difficult that Song Jun planned to fight like this?