And Xue Song's progress was also very smooth, because the Manichaean army was divided into three gates, the troops were scattered, and there was no one to command, so Xue Song was like a broken bamboo, and easily occupied the other three city gates. At this time, Zhang Yuan also led his men and horses to arrive, and Cao Xun immediately asked them to quickly clear the remnants of the resistance of the other Manichaean troops in the city.

Wang Guan, who was trapped in the state government, also knew that it was not good, and launched several surprises in a row, but the Song army was tightly guarded and took advantage of the geographical advantage, and lost more than 300 people in vain, so he had to close the palace gate again and not come out.

It only took more than an hour, except for the state government, the entire city of Nanenzhou was under the control of the Song army. Wang Guan saw that the general trend was gone, and there was only a dead end to resist any longer, so he had no choice but to announce his surrender.

This battle took less than two hours from the landing of the Song army to the complete occupation of Nanenzhou City, killing more than 2,000 Manichaean troops, capturing nearly 3,000 She, and only more than 100 people escaped. And because of the adequate preparation in advance and the proper command, it should have been the street battle with the largest loss of men and horses, but the losses of the Song army did not exceed 500 people.

After capturing Nanenzhou, Cao Xun immediately did not stop, and immediately led the army to take Yangchun, and then took Takishui overnight. and in one day they took three cities in a row.

Because the war was going very smoothly, Cao Xun and Xue Song, Li Gongzuo, Zhang Yuan and others discussed, because the current Song army's offensive on the frontal battlefield was also very smooth, it was decided to revise the battle plan formulated before the war, leaving Li Gongzuo to guard Nanenzhou, Zhang Yuan to guard Yangchun, and the two cities to support each other at an angle. Cao Xun and Xue Song led 8,000 men and horses to the north along the Luoding River, and cooperated with Zhou Fangyi, who sent troops from Guangzhou, to take Deqing Mansion first, so that they could connect with the Song army attacking head-on, communicate with each other, and then attack Gaozhou, Rongzhou and other places.

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At this time, it was noon, the sun was dazzling, the sound of killing under the Hengshan City shook the sky, and the war drums sounded violently, like thunder.

The Song army erected one hundred and ten ladders under the city and leaned against the city wall, and all the soldiers climbed bravely. The arrows on the city rained down like raindrops, and the Song army also erected ten bucket trucks in the array, which was higher than the city wall, and the crossbowmen shot arrows at the city wall in the bucket, covering the Song army who risked death to attack the city. All of a sudden, the arrows flew back and forth in the air like locusts.

Qi Dazhu held a long-handled machete in one hand and a shield in the other hand to block the arrows, and climbed up the city wall step by step from the ladder, and at the entrance of the battlement, a Manichaean soldier stood guard at the entrance of the battlement, holding a spear in his hand, and stabbed at him.

Qi Dazhu held a shield in his left hand, blocked the spear, and brandished a machete in his hand, slashing at the opponent. In desperation, the other party took a step back and dodged the blade. Qi Dazhu took advantage of the momentum to step on the battlement, and was the first to step on the wall of Hengshan, and then forcefully put the shield out, hitting the soldier in the face. The soldier was so bloody that he fell to the ground. Then Qi Dazhu took a knife in both hands and slashed at another Manichaean soldier. The soldier parried with his spear, and with a "click" the stalk of the spear was cut in two, and the soldier's breastplate was cut open, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

Seeing that he was so brave, the soldiers defending the city did not dare to step forward to engage in the battle for a while, Qi Dazhu jumped off the battlement, and Ji Chengjiang, Ji Chenghe and others behind followed up, and from the gap opened by Qi Dazhu, they stepped on the city head one after another. Fierce battle with the Manichaean army on the city, although the Manichaean defenders on the city wall tried their best to resist, but still couldn't help but more and more Song soldiers stepped on the city wall, and the two sides launched a fierce fight on the city.

Although Hengshan is the main road of demolition and chong in Yongzhou, it is not a strategic place in itself, and most of the city walls are made of dirt, and they are not too high, so it is not a strong city. The geography is very good, and only the south gate can be used for the Dagui Heng army to carry out operations, so it has become the key attack side of the Song army. This is also the reason why Hengshan was planned before the war and evaluated Hengshan as the first battle to advance Yongzhou.

Gao Zhen watched the battle under the city, this was his first time leading the army to fight, and he was both nervous and excited. This time, he led the army to recapture Yongzhou, accompanied by the Ma Army Division of the Central Army, the Infantry Army Division of the Left Army, the Guangxi Army Front Army and the Tabai Army, a total of more than 18,000 people from the four armies. This battle was the Guangxi army stepping on the white army to take the initiative to ask for help, to take on the task of attacking the city, sure enough, Qi Dazhu, who stepped on the white army, took the lead in stepping on the city wall, and the current process of the war also made Gao Zhen feel very satisfied.

At this moment, suddenly billowing smoke rose from the city, and then the fire soared into the sky, and the defenders on the city wall saw that the city was on fire, and immediately panicked and became chaotic.

Ling Xiang said loudly under the city: "It's successful, they did it in the city." ”

It turned out that long before the Song army sent troops, the Huang family had arranged for a large number of disciples to sneak into Hengshan, they were originally locals, and it was naturally not difficult to sneak into Hengshan to hide for a few days. As soon as the Song army arrived, they immediately began to attack the city, attracting all the forces of Hengshan, and the disciples of the Huang family who infiltrated Hengshanqi immediately set fire everywhere in the city to create chaos. And taking advantage of the chaos, he killed the Manichaean army guarding the city gate, opened the city gate, and let the Song army in.

Sure enough, as soon as the city gate opened, the Song army outside the city swarmed in and slaughtered into the Hengshan Fortress. When the Manichaean army defending the city saw it, they knew that the general situation was gone, and they abandoned the city and fled one after another. The Song army completely captured Hengshan.

After the Song army entered the city, Gao Zhen ordered people to hurry to extinguish the fire in the city, and on the other hand, to clear the remaining enemy troops in the city.

At this time, there were hundreds of Manichaean soldiers on the city walls, but they were cornered, and they were still fighting as trapped beasts. And Qi Dazhu also brandished a machete and fought fiercely with them. Ling Xiang swept up the city wall and shouted: "Listen to the Manichaean army, Hengshan has been broken by us, you are already cornered, those who surrender with amplified weapons can avoid death, otherwise there is only one way to die." ”

These words were shouted with internal strength, and the soldiers in the city heard them clearly, and they all put down their weapons and chose to surrender. Qi Dazhu still wanted to kill, but was stopped by Ling Xiang and said, "Qi Dazhu, stop, they have all surrendered, don't kill any more." ”

Qi Dazhu was stunned, among the Song army, he was most convinced by Yang Yan, followed by Ling Xiang, so he couldn't stop. At this time, his machete was blurred with flesh and blood, and his body and face were also splattered with blood. Ji Chengjiang, Ji Chenghe and others also surrounded him, Qi Dazhu roared, knelt on his knees on the city wall, and said loudly to the sky: "Daddy, folks, today I, Qi Dazhu, finally avenged you." Saying that, he cried loudly, and Ji Chengjiang, Ji Chenghe and other fellow villagers who came with him also cried when they heard it.

When Ling Xiang saw it, he sighed in his heart, last year he started guarding Hengshan and was forced to leave his hometown, and now that almost a year has passed, he has finally come back.

After capturing Hengshan, the Song army was slightly repaired, Gao Zhen left Liu Tianbiao, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Jingjiang Prefecture, to lead the front army of the Guangxi Army to garrison Hengshan, and he and Zhang Shiyan each led an army, divided the troops into two roads, he led a road to the west to attack Temo Road, Zhang Shiyan led a road to the north to open up the passage of Yongzhou and Yizhou, and the Guangxi army's Tabai Army was divided into two, followed the two armies respectively, and agreed to meet in Ziqi.

The two Song armies were killed separately, and there was almost no decent resistance along the way, because the Manichaean army itself had a weak foundation in Yongzhou, and when attacking Yongzhou at that time, they killed many innocent Servants in order to establish their authority, and it was only because the Manichaeism was too powerful in the past that the Men had to submit to the rule of Manichaeism.

But now that the Song army has arrived, the Manichaean army has been defeated in successive battles, and it has become a strong crossbow, and the Huang family has stood on the side of the Song army. The Huang family is a big family of the Gu clan for hundreds of years, although it is also a big injury at this time, but after all, it is a hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen, and its prestige is still there, not to mention that now the other four clans are almost all decayed, so the Huang family can not be able to be a banner, so the Huang family has also become the pillar of the Yu clan with the scriptures. So as long as the Huang family came forward, they all responded in the city to help the Song army attack the city and capture the wall. There were even several state cities where the Song army had not yet arrived, so they drove away the Manichaean army guarding there and surrendered to the Song army.

As a result, everywhere the Song army went, everything went smoothly, and the two Song armies were almost bloodless, and they met in Ziqi. Gao Zhen and Zhang Shiyan were also relatively funny, and this battle was too easy.

Ziqi thought that it was the border between the Great Song Dynasty and Dali and Zhizhi, so Gao Zhen appointed a few local village elders recommended by the Huang family to temporarily manage the administration of Ziqi, and waited for the imperial court to send new officials to take office. Leave a thousand soldiers stationed in Ziqi, and then was about to leave Ziqi to go back to Hengshan, when suddenly a spy came to report, in the west of Ziqi, and the border with Dali seems to have Dali and Jiaozhi troops, crossed the Huangni River, into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Huangni River is the border between the Great Song Dynasty and Dali, but the river is not deep, and people can wade through the river on foot in the freshwater period. It is now the golden autumn, and the Huangni River is entering the freshwater period.

Gao Zhen was also taken aback when he heard this, he also knew that there was a war between Dali and Jiaozhi now, but this was a matter of other people's countries, and Da Song didn't want to pay attention to it. Before setting out on the expedition, Yang Yan repeatedly told Gao Zhen not to have disputes with Dali and Jiaozhi. But now that the armies of the two countries have crossed the border and entered the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, it can't be ignored, so Gao Zhen and Ling Xiang immediately took 3,000 men and horses and rushed to the border with the spies who reported the incident.