Li Changjie's words can't bring people confidence, but the smart Empress Dowager Yilan doesn't ask more. Li Changjie said that what it is, that is what it is.

Including Li Qiande, the three of them have actually been tightly tied together and share weal and woe. Once Li Changjie can't control the situation in the Shenglong Mansion, next, whether it is Yilan or Li Qiande, except for one death, they can only be sacrificed to the Song people to beg for an ending.

Empress Dowager Yilan spoke again, and her words turned from north to south: "How should I deal with Zhancheng?" ”

Li Changjie snorted coldly: "The restraint is very timid and timid, he dares to come when the Shenglong Mansion is broken, the Shenglong Mansion is not broken, and he doesn't dare to cross the border if he is given ten guts!" ”

Yilan knew so much, Li Changjie was in a better mood, but when he thought of the situation in the north, his mood immediately went bad again.

The so-called exorcism of ghosts and gods only comes from the mouths of people fleeing from Menzhou, and there is no conclusive evidence. The number of soldiers who fled from Menzhou was not large, and after they were beheaded on the charge of escaping from the battle, they did not spread much.

There is another thing that should be more worried. Since the Song army began to attack, intelligence from the north has been cut off. The roads deep in the mountains and forests in the north will pass by a group of barbarians from Xidong from time to time, and even if the spies want to send back the information they have discovered, there is no way out. At present, the ferry on the Fuliang River has been stopped, except for a few hidden places, and the north-south traffic has been completely interrupted.

The only thing that can be confirmed now is that before the Song army sent troops, there were only more than 5,000 Western troops arriving in Yongzhou, and with the Jingnan army, there were only 7,000 troops that could be used - those new armies, there was no need not to count.

Five thousand is the elite of all equipped with iron armor, if compared with the Jingnan army that fought before, it will definitely win, only the water and soil are not satisfied, and they can collapse without a fight.

It's just that Han Gang, who once let him beat him to a great defeat and flee at the moment when victory just came, was famous for his medical skills in the Song Kingdom. However, Li Changjie did not believe that he could subdue the miasma of the south. Moreover, when Cochin loses its people, it can only rely on the right time and place, and no matter what, it must be delayed until it rains.

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It was supposed to be the ninth cold day, the middle of winter, but there was a blazing sun on his head that seemed to boil water.

It should have been a difficult step in the ice and snow, shivering with cold, and worrying about whether the nose and ears would fall off after frostbite. But now he was sweating, and the robe behind him was covered with thick salt frost.

This is clearly a rare summer day in the middle of summer in Kansai, but it happened when the Chinese New Year was approaching.

However, Han Gang spent nearly a year making sufficient preparations for the difficult weather, water and soil in Jiaozhou. Medicinal materials to relieve the heat, medicinal materials to repel mosquitoes, and salt water to replenish the lost salt, the transfer agency under the leadership of Han Gang not only transports materials in the rear, but also includes the actions of the army, reasonably arranges the diet of the whole army, and protects the physical and mental health of tens of thousands of troops.

It's just that people may be able to adapt to drastic changes in the external environment, but livestock can't. Going south from Kansai, the war horses in the army were lost a lot. The soldiers could drink clean boiled water, but they could not boil water for the horses. A man can take off his clothes, but a horse cannot shed all his hair. The soldiers could tell the doctor where they were uncomfortable, but one of the horses' mouths was used to eat forage, and they could not speak.

The same is the problem of diet and climate, the soldiers of the Western Army can also recover their health under the careful care of medical personnel, and gradually adapt to the water and soil of Jiaozhou; But many of the horses on which they rode were already whimpering.

Since entering the plains, the loss of war horses has become more and more serious. When Han Gang got up every day, the first news he heard was how many war horses died yesterday and how many war horses fell ill.

"Fortunately, there are Dian horses to replenish." Han Gang sighed and looked at the shocking numbers in his hand, "Otherwise, the most elite cavalry commanders in Kansai, the few horse troops with horses, almost half of them will be turned into foot soldiers." ”

"In the old years, there were only one or two out of ten cavalry and horses, and it was only a little better after Xihe opened a horse market in the past two years. Now that there are Dian horses again, the south will no longer have to be afraid of cavalry with only two legs in the future. Yan Da smiled, and his mood was getting better and better all the way, "Thank you to the deputy marshal for giving the horse, otherwise the last general would only be able to ride a four-foot-tall horse into battle." ”

Han Gang shook his head and said, "Fengchen, where did you say." I, a civil official, can ride in an ox cart, but as a general who is about to go into battle, you must not ride an inferior horse. ”

The mount that Yanda brought from Kansai also fell ill after passing through the mountains of northern Jiaozhi, and the veterinarians in the army could not cure the disease of adaptation. Yan Da had no choice but to go to the hundreds of Yunnan horses just sent, and picked the tallest one to ride, but the dwarf was a general, and he was still a dwarf after the worst, and he couldn't compare with the good horse of Hexi.

Han Gang saw that Yan Da was the main general, but he was riding a short horse with a shoulder height of less than four feet, which was really not good, and it made people laugh when he looked at it, where could he still put on the majesty of a general and deter the army? gave Yan Da a good horse with Northern Horse blood that he had been riding, although it was still not as good as Huang Bi before Yan Da, but it could be regarded as passable.

"The Zhutong barbarian army killed people and set fires outside, and they did all the work of cutting grass and eradicating the roots, but Li Changjie never took a step." Yan Da thanked Han Gang for the mount and got down to business, "What should I do next?" Do you want to "

Zhang Dian groaned, "It's better to slow down, solve the north side of the Fuliang River, and then consider the south side, just in case." ”

"It's only the beginning of the lunar month, and we still have nearly two months to enter Thang Long Mansion, so we have to be a little steady." Han Gang said, "And the Jiaozhi people have dragged all the boats to the south bank, and it will take some time to build the raft or boat." ”

Before you win, you lose first. Zhang Dian and Han Gang's caution made Yanda feel at ease.

Although the Jiaozhi people did not dare to cross the river to counterattack, even if all the recruits were included, the strength in the hands of the Annan camp was only 10,000 after all, and once they were negligent, they would be doomed, and there would be no room for defeat at all.

But then again, the officers and soldiers are outnumbered, and being able to reach the Fuliang River is a credit; Failure to capture the Cochin royal court is not a crime. Even if Zhang Dian and Han Gang lead the army back to Yongzhou now, it is a great achievement.

Of course, Yanda would not think that Zhang Dian and Han Gang would stop there, and accept it when they saw it.

The hearts of the two commanders are all about the intention of completely destroying the country in Jiaozhi and solving the enemy in the south once and for all. Otherwise, a series of measures that damaged the reputation of the two men would not have come out of the Annan Economic and Strategic Division, all in order to eradicate the foundation of the Jiaozhi state, and its top priority was to clear the population of the land.

Coming out of the temporary station of the Jinglu Recruitment Division, Yan Da met a team of soldiers escorting Shengkou to the camp in the north of the city. In the group, there were men, women, and children, staggering under the spears.

Reluctant to cultivate the land for a long time, reluctant to live in a family house for several generations, and reluctant to burn down the grain stored in the backyard of the home, the farming people who love the soil will not flee their hometowns until the last moment, and those who can make a decision are only a few after all, and when the state and county officials flee south one after another, they will not even have the backbone to organize the evacuation.

There are no mountains to hide, and the delta plains, formed by the impact of rivers, are rare even in the larger woods, and there is no other way to cross the Fura River. But how can it be so easy for hundreds of thousands of people to cross the river. The roads are clogged, and at the end of the day, you can only become captives.

Sympathize?

Of course, Yan Da had a little bit in his heart, and there was something hidden in the eyes of the soldiers around him. When I saw the people of the Han family who had been exchanged for so much, all the sympathy disappeared.

And Yan Da saw more of the pleasure of revenge, especially the new army recruited from Yongzhou, all of whom had a deep blood feud with Jiaozhi, their relatives were killed, and the house did not exist, and now they can finally take revenge in Jiaozhi country, and they are only happy in their hearts. Most of the errands for civilians are entrusted to them.

As the saying goes, bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates.

The tens of thousands of cave barbarians who entered the north bank of the Fuliang River, both soldiers and bandits, swept back and forth with a grate, and the towns and villages were destroyed. While they plundered the place, the footsteps of the Song army continued to advance slowly towards the south. But the plain in the lower reaches of the Furagawa is not big after all, and after a few days, the slowly marching army can already hear the flow of the Furajiang River.

"The Annam Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty and the current Jiaozhi royal capital. This Nantian Metropolis, which stands on the bank of the Fuliang River, has changed its name since the establishment of the city in the fourth year of Tang Wude. From the Purple City when it was first built, to the Luocheng [Luocheng] at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Daluo after the five generations of Southern Han guards Wu Changqi became independent.

However, after that, the capital of Cochin was in Hualu in the south. It was not until Li Gongyun established the country on behalf of the Li family, and moved the king of Jiaozhi from Hualu to this place with Daluo's 'house in the world, and the dragon and tiger in the world'. At the beginning of moving the capital, Li Gongyun led the people to stay in the riverside under the city, there is a yellow dragon now in the imperial boat, with its auspiciousness, so change Daluo to Shenglong Mansion, it has been more than 60 years so far. ”

He Yi's introduction to the capital of Jiaozhi made people feel that he was still somewhat useful as a descendant. Whether he knew it for a long time, or he temporarily held the Buddha's feet after he became an official, with this insight, he did not waste the empty Xuanzha that Han Gang gave him.

"There are still nearly 100,000 displaced people gathered on the north bank of the Fuliang River." Yan Da asked, "The barbarian army of Zhutong is all gearing up to share their food. Will this matter be handed over to the Thirty-six Mountains and Guangyuan Army, or will we do it? ”

"As long as the officers and soldiers press over, they will naturally scatter and flee, as long as they are dispersed." Zhang Dian had no intention of letting the thin army in his hands sell coolies, "The rest of the things are handed over, just keep an eye on the south!" ”