Gao Daquan, who was guarding at the mouth of the Qiqi River Valley, never entered the valley, even if the spies came to report that all the Jiaozhi soldiers in Luzhou had fled, Gao Daquan still stuck to the outside of the valley.

It was Han Zong who regained Luzhou, and with the sergeants who were originally guarding Ningming, he re-entered Luzhou all the way along the Siling River Valley.

The Jiaozhi soldiers have long since disappeared, and the entire Luzhou is like a ghost domain, full of ruins and broken walls, and nameless dead bodies can be seen everywhere. There were no people for hundreds of miles, only red-eyed wild dogs scurrying around.

In the end, only about 2,000 of the 4,000 or 5,000 Jiaozhi native soldiers who came to the aid of Jiatong escaped to Sumaozhou, and the rest basically died of civil strife and starvation. Breaking into more than 2,000 people, Su Maozhou, which was still quiet, suddenly boiled, and it had been burned everywhere by these hungry and crazy Jiaozhi native soldiers, and even the Jiaozhi soldiers stationed here could not be suppressed, and the local local officials whose strength had been greatly reduced were even more helpless.

Feng Shenji took advantage of the situation and bluffed at the border, echoing the chaotic Jiaozhi native soldiers.

In just a few days, there was a storm in Sumao Prefecture in the northeast of Jiaozhi and the border with Qinzhou of the Great Song Dynasty, and the disturbance even exceeded that of Langzhou, which was in the midst of war.

Jiaozhi was no longer able to draw troops into Sumaozhou, so Li Foma had no choice but to hand over this place to Chen Changji, who went out to fight in Langzhou, and ordered him to quickly lead troops to pacify Langzhou, sweep away the front line of Langzhou and Luzhou, and enter Sumaozhou from the back road to quell the rebellion.

It was with such a military order that Chen Changji led an army of 20,000 to the front line in Langzhou.

Looking at Ruan Dali, who was dejected in front of him, Chen Changji said with a calm face: "As a pioneer, what is the reason why you are camped ten miles away from the valley mouth?" You camp here, and where do you encamp the army? It's hard to go back! ”

Ruan Dali was a little helpless: "Big handsome, Song Jun's stone cannon is powerful, and he really can't stay close to it." The first day I arrived. went up to test the strength of the Song army and folded three hundred people. At night, he camped two miles away from the valley mouth, and was hit by a round of stone cannons from the Song army, and there were no more than 300 people. I had no choice but to retreat here! ”

"Rubbish! What kind of stone cannon can Song Jun be so good? You must be greedy for life and afraid of death! Gather up your horses and horses, and set up camp a mile beyond the valley. The army behind me is following! ”

Ruan Dali almost cried: "Dashuai, don't be reckless!" It's close, and the Song army's stone cannons have been calling day and night, so won't they break the men and horses in vain? ”

Where is Chen Changji willing to listen, he only let Ruan Dali lead the troops forward, if not, military law will deal with it.

Ruan Dali had no choice but to take his own department and set up a camp. and lead the troops forward one by one.

drove away Ruan Dali, Chen Changji set up his handsome camp in the place where Ruan Dali's original camp was located, and the rest of the horses surrounded the Shuai camp everywhere.

Watching Ruan Dali leave, Chen Changji summoned his three personal soldiers and asked them to follow Chen Changji, one was to monitor and not let him slip, and the other was to report any accidents in time.

Being able to be the commander of tens of thousands of troops, Chen Changji is certainly not stupid. Ruan Dali's words, he can't really take it seriously. But then again, as a commander-in-chief. He could not show weakness as soon as he arrived, and camped a dozen or twenty miles away from the valley mouth. How many means the Song army has, he has to see it with his own eyes before he knows it, and he also asks someone to attract firepower.

Nguyen Dali's hand originally had only 500 Jiaozhi regular soldiers, but there were no more than 200 people, and only 300 people remained. The others were all native soldiers of the states. If you want people to be bait, what is more suitable than Ruan Dali?

Xu Ping stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the busy Jiaozhi army at the bottom of the mountain, his face was heavy.

There are tens of thousands of people, boundless. This time there were nearly 20,000 troops, but it was not the two or three thousand cross-chin soldiers at the beginning. Outside the entire valley, almost all the flat land suitable for camping was occupied, and even some small dirt slopes were cleared out and occupied by the Jiaozhi soldiers.

In the Cochin barracks, the most conspicuous thing is two or three hundred elephants, which can be seen clearly from a few miles away, and they are particularly conspicuous in the flat land.

I don't know what the Cochin people are going to do with these elephants, but I have long heard that they have elephant soldiers, and when they fight, they rush and kill with amazing momentum. However, Xu Ping did not intend to face these army formations, but to defend as an attack, trying to use terrain and fortifications to eliminate their offensive advantages, thinking that these elephants would be useless.

Lu Fang stood beside Xu Ping and whispered: "Official, the Jiaozhi people are new to coming, do you want to give them a dismount, beat them with a stone cannon tonight, and make them uneasy?" ”

"No, now is not the time. The commander of Jiaozhi is very cautious, the tent is ten miles away, and the barracks of the main force are five miles away from us, and the stone cannons are not threatening such a far place. If we can't inflict heavy damage on the enemy, then it will really scare people, but it will expose our means, which is unwise! ”

Lu Fang said: "But we are watching it like this from the mountain, but it is a little uncomfortable." ”

"Yes, we can't look at it like that. Did you see that the forward of the Cochin people went down to the village a mile outside the valley mouth, which was not only close to us, but also not connected to the other Cochin military villages. I don't know how the Pioneer offended the coach and was sent to such a dead end, an isolated salient. As soon as the coach came, he gave us such a big gift, and it would be embarrassing not to accept it. Yesterday, Gao Daquan came back from the valley mouth of Luzhou, just in time for this big battle, and he was fulfilled. ”

"The official means ......"

"Tonight, you cooperated with Gao Daquan and sent out 2,000 cavalry to accept this great gift. Do you know what our biggest benefit on the hillside is? ”

Lu Fang smiled: "Condescending, this has infinite benefits." ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "Not only that, we are facing the slopes here, and there are no dead ends from above." There are no dead ends, and that's all that matters. No matter what means the Cochin people use, we can see it from above and can be prepared in advance. ”

"It turns out that this is what officials mean by making sloping walls."

"It's not just that, for example, when the Cochin people attack, they will inevitably use stone cannons. We were diagonal here, and his stone bullets hit the clearing, and then rolled down, hurting his own people. There are many other benefits, but the biggest benefit is that for us, we can see every move of the Cochins. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Ping accentuated his voice and said: "It's just over the twentieth day of the first month, and the moon won't rise until midnight. When the moon dawned, Gao Daquan led the cavalry to attack from the valley, and you here and on the opposite side, you watched the movement of the Jiaozhi military camp on the hillside, and swept the formation for Gao Daquan. If the Jiaozhi army is dispatched and threatens Gao Daquan, the formation of the Jiaozhi people will be scattered with stone artillery. ”

Lu Fang's face was solemn: "Humble and respectful!" ”

Looking at the bottom of the mountain, Xu Ping suddenly smiled: "Remember, if the Jiaozhi people form a formation, you will specially divide ten stone cannons here and fight at the elephant herd." I don't know if the power of our stone bullets can frighten the elephant herd, and if the elephant herd is frightened, what will it look like in the Jiaozhi military camp. (To be continued.) )