In June this year, when Wang Anshi asked Guo Kui to send troops again, he had a conversation with Zhao Ji.

Wang Anshi said: "At that time, Li Qiande was just established in Jiaozhi, and the states wanted to attach it, so as long as 20,000 elite soldiers were recruited and five or six Chinese generals were selected, they would definitely get Jiaozhi. If the minister expected that there would be today's misdeeds, he should not hesitate to make a move. ”

Zhao Ji said that if the former Xingwang wanted to be promising, he had to train his troops first and then move.

Even if it was a good opportunity, it was still too late for the south to train the troops, that is, it couldn't do it with hindsight!

Wang Anshi said: "If you don't do something, it will be very difficult to train the troops." But day and night, I teach to sit, work, pull, and shoot, and I don't know what the morale is when I encounter the enemy. However, if you do something to make it meritorious, then you will not see the talent of the person. Those who are material will be rewarded, and those who are not material will also bring their own. ”

Usually you can't see talent in training, and only when you fight, do you know that the general can fight. Ordinary training may not be effective, it has to be practiced.

But is actual combat important, and training in ordinary times not important? If it weren't for Wang Shao who had trained archers in Qinzhou for so long, how could he have a strong army in his hands and how could he recover the Xihe?

20,000 soldiers wiped out Jiaozhi, which shows Wang Anshi's contempt for Jiaozhi.

It was this contempt that Guo Kui, who was leading his army from Tanzhou to Guizhou, received two edicts.

The first is: Annan's move, but it is best to speed up. Qing and others can be more considerate of the country, carefully planned, and discussed by the group, and are in urgent need of annihilation, so as to respect and strengthen China, so that the corner of the corner of the pill knows a little.

I gave you 100,000 officers and soldiers, 200,000 people, hurry up and destroy the little Jiaozhi, otherwise the Khitan will come to extort again.

Why did Zhao Ji hate the Khitan later, that is, the Khitan came to extort bamboo this time. The whole strategy was formulated, and there were strict mistakes.

The second edict. It is to ask Guo Kui to calm the day of Jiaozhi. According to the administration of the hinterland, where are the prefectures and counties listed.

That is, Wang Anshi never thought that he would not be able to take Jiaozhi from beginning to end.

and Liu Yi, even if he declares his personal vendetta, he can't be so blatant.

Or Wang Anshi.

Jiaozhi invaded, Wang Anshi was at a loss, so he issued an edict in Zhongshu, asking Liu Yi to examine and deal with it in detail, and the guards and envoys were strictly guarded. No light play.

If the edict taught me to do this, I couldn't save Yongzhou.

Everyone will make mistakes in judgment, just like now Wang Ju thinks that Zhao Ji has some fears, one is that there are more people who have migrated, and the other is that they are greedy for money.

In fact, it is not these two things at all, the important thing is that Wang Ju can control more and more migrants in his hands, once this situation occurs, it is equivalent to Wang Ju controlling a force in his hands that can threaten the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji is not very easy to say, otherwise Wang Ju can explain again.

Because of miscalculation, this will continue to be tangled. But the question doesn't matter. The important thing is that if there is a misjudgment in such a heavy matter, it will be fatal.

Guo Kui received these two warrants. He was also dumbfounded, he originally went to the south, because he was not very familiar, and he was uneasy, at least let me know the situation before I could use the army, but now the imperial court asked him to go south urgently and quickly wipe out Jiaozhi.

Is there anything that easy to extinguish? So Guo Kui reluctantly spent more than 70 days in Siming Prefecture, until Yanda forced Liu Ji, the chief of Guangyuan Prefecture, to lead the army across the national border and set off towards Jiaozhi.

However, Guo Kui's rebellious psychology is fatal, it is better for you to simply stop the three armies in Guizhou, first of all, it is developed maturely, and the "miasma" is not so strict. That is, there are very few corrupt substances, and even if mosquitoes bite officers and soldiers, they will not be infected with malignant germs. But he led the three armies to Siming Prefecture, which was close to the Sino-Vietnamese border in later generations, not to mention the supply difficulties, and the development was not mature, and the immature development meant that there was decay everywhere, and mosquitoes would carry germs. It was autumn again, so before the army had set out, news spread that the army was infected with malaria.

After receiving the report a few days ago, Zhao Ji personally approved it: The four generals of Annan marched to Yongzhou and the army, and nearly 4,500 people died and fell ill in early September. But the fire is urgent and strictly encouraged, and it is still responsible for medical treatment.

Then let the imperial doctor mix 30 kinds of miasma medicines, and ordered the official Liang to take the political belt to Annan.

Falciparum malaria, before artemisinin comes out, it can be said that it is a terminal disease, and it will not work if the doctor dispenses any medicine!

Tragedy is planted.

Although the weather is gradually becoming less and less hot, how many pathogens are there among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians?

However, Wang Ju was annoyed: "Your Majesty, it's hard to say last year, but now, the minister dares to guarantee that His Majesty will tear up the preliminary agreement made last year, and the Liao State will not dare to send troops." ”

Zhao Ji was surprised.

"It is a catastrophe for Jiaozhi to dare to do this. The Liao State dared to extort, which was also a catastrophe. Last year was after the disaster, and the people's lives were still very difficult, even if this spring, there were still some people who died of hunger and sold their sons and daughters, otherwise there would not be so many people from the north who ran to Quanzhou in order to escape overseas. But the autumn harvest is over, and the situation is gradually improving. Although our dynasty sent 300,000 people south, of which 200,000 were people, the rest was no more than 100,000 troops. The main body of the army is still in the north, and Zhang Ji is well trained at the border, so why be afraid? Moreover, the traitors of the Liao State killed the queen, and the political situation was turbulent. Moreover, this catastrophe is not only in the Yanyun region, but also in the Huanglong Mansion. Our dynasty is difficult, and the Liao country is also difficult. Let me ask, why did the Liao State dare to send troops to our court at this time? ”

Some of the news was learned by him from Zhang Ji.

Only then did Wang Ju know that this was a rare mega La Niña disaster for a thousand years, not only the Song Dynasty from the southeast to the north, but also the Western Xia and Liao kingdoms were affected by Yanzhòng.

Therefore, Wang Ju's attitude towards the change of the law has always been very complicated, although many people died of starvation and froze to death, but in general, if there was no Wang Anshi's change, the treasury did not have a large amount of savings, and the consequences of this disaster would be stricter than anyone imagined.

Of course, the millions of stone grains that Wang Ju brought were also powerful.

Moreover, Wang Ju slashed the Western Xia, although the Western Xia gradually recovered some vitality, it was far less than the Western Xia in another time and space.

That is, the situation in the northwest will be better than it has ever been.

If it hadn't been done well last year, Liao would have dared to send troops. But this year, it's autumn again. The crops were harvested together. Does the Liao State dare to send troops?

Another phenomenon can be seen. Last year's crops continued to fail. Coupled with the taxation of the imperial court, some of the people harvested, but they began to flee, and after the seven and eight handovers, there will not be a grain of grain in their hands. So they went south.

However, after this autumn, except for the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in Quanzhou, almost few people will flock to Quanzhou, and there will be more next year. But it will be the time of the spring famine, and the number will be far less than this year.

For the Liao State is so full of soldiers, what kind of Yanyun do you want!

Wang Ju said again: "Your Majesty, when the minister saw that the boundary was undecided for a long time, he thought that the court was deliberately delaying, who knew that it was the court that was afraid of Liao." ”

Zhao Ji didn't care about the sarcasm in Wang Ju's words, and his face turned pale.

If so, it means that there was a serious mistake in his decision-making with Wang Anshi, including the Yongzhou tragedy.

Of course, he hoped in his heart that Wang Ju was wrong.

Did Wang Ju expect it wrong? You'll see it in the next battle.

The army of the Song Dynasty went south, and Jiaozhi sent war elephants to resist the battle.

This thing looks mighty. But it didn't work, as early as Pan Mei, or even earlier in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he easily cracked the elephant soldiers.

The Song army first used the tiger cannon to drop the explosives package, which was not only loud, but also contained many iron nails, iron thistles and other things in the explosives package.

Then shoot with the Divine Arm Bow with arrows.

Then a death squad was sent forward and slashed the elephant's trunk with a knife.

As a result, the herd turned around and ran back, and practiced its own army.

Song Jun easily ushered in a good start.

Then Guo Kui used Qu Zhen and other generals to divide his troops to attack Menzhou, and the enemy generals in Menzhou were full of gold and surrendered with the leaders of each Xitong.

The Song army continued southward and quickly approached the Fuliang River.

At this time, the Song army had already had a dispute, after Guo Kui arrived at the front line, Zhao Kuo mentioned yì, and when the large army behind had not yet arrived, he sent scouts with heavy money to recruit and surrender the departments of the two rivers (Fuliang River and Baiteng River), even if they could not be bought, at least they could be centrifuged and suspicious of each other, so when the army arrived later, it would be like a bamboo.

Guo Kui didn't listen.

The army arrived, Guo Kui was rubbing, Zhao Tuo mentioned yì again, and the soldiers were divided into three roads (there was also a water army, and Bin and Yang Congxian led the warships from Dongjing Port to attack the Fuliang River), this road did not move, but the army on land was divided into two roads, one was the Chinese army, which is the current march route, and the other was divided into one road, from Guangyuanzhou Road to attack Shenglong City. And unlike history, because of the Battle of Gyeongju, many generals emerged, such as this battle not only brought Yan Da, Miao Xu, the son of Miao Zhi, the veteran He Bin, Qu Zhen, as well as Yao Lin, Yao Xiong's uncle and nephew, Chongyi, so there are many famous generals in the army who can fight.

Then the three-way march together, Jiaozhi could not be guarded, and Jiaozhi was quickly taken down.

However, Guo Kui went to the front line, looked at the vast and dense mountains and forests, and looked stupid, so he still didn't agree.

Not necessarily Zhao Du's idea was right, and Jiaozhi was not so easy to destroy, and it looked like the Yuan Dynasty later invaded the royal capital, and in the end, he withdrew his troops and went back.

Zhu Di is a powerful person, and his martial arts value can rank in the top ten among the kings of all dynasties in China, and he did destroy Jiaozhi, but as soon as Zhu Di died, there was no way to govern it later, so he discarded Jiaozhi again.

That is, the army has not yet been launched, and the two coaches have been at odds.

The even more fatal Song Dynasty sent envoys to Zhancheng and Zhenla, asking them to help quell Jiaozhi, and the two countries also agreed, but after the army was sent, the two countries did not see a single soldier.

It was against this background that the army arrived on the banks of the Fura River.

More than 400 warships were moored on the south bank of the Fuliang River, making it impossible for the Song army to help and fight. So Guo Kui prepared to build a pontoon bridge in the middle of the river to march the army. But some generals couldn't wait, and first made some rafts from the north bank and crossed the river first. As a result, because of the small number of troops, they were captured and killed one by one by the Jiaozhi army.

At the same time, Miao Lu led an army, with Jiaozhi descending general Jinman as a guide, preparing to cross the Fuliang River from Ruyuedu, where there were sixty miles away from the main battlefield, the Jiaozhi army gathered here, and the other places were empty, so they used the strange army to break through the capital of Jiaozhi. However, seeing the fate of the sergeants crossing the river, Guo Kui was afraid that Miao Lu's strange army would repeat the mistakes of the past, so he ordered them to be withdrawn.

It is true that Guo Kui is good at small knocks, but he is not capable of leading such a large-scale army.

There is no way, Yanda stood up to offer advice, there are only two strategies, one is to show weakness to the enemy, these Jiaozhi people are very proud and easy to be fooled.

The second is to send scouts to threaten that the Hebin naval army was blocked at the port of Dongliangjing. People pretend they don't know. Instead, it was mistakenly thought that it was a cochin navy that was tracing the river. became a Song Dynasty naval army.

The Song army died of countless soldiers and civilians due to malaria, this Jiaozhi knew, after hearing these two news, he thought it was a chance to win, one is that the morale of the Song army is gone, morale is low, and no matter how many troops there are, it will not work. The second is to misjudge that the Jiaozhi Navy is the Song Dynasty Navy Army, so this Navy can launch a surprise attack on the Song Army by surprise.

Cochin meter. Tens of thousands of troops clamored to go north, but in fact, it was this terrain, as well as the so-called miasma, that threw away these two favorable factors, and went to the frontal battlefield, which was almost looking for death.

In particular, the Song army brought a large number of cavalry, and the tens of thousands of Jiaozhi troops were almost wiped out.

How big can it be, how strong it can be. How many troops can there be?

In the first battle, the foundation of the Jiaozhi family was almost wiped out, and Li Qiande immediately offered the table. Sent an envoy to the military gate to ask for surrender, and presented the land of the five states of Sumaozhou, Silang, Menzhou, Langzhou and Guangyuan Prefecture to the Song Dynasty, and still returned to the children of the plundered people.

He also said: "The beggar is young, recall Xuanfu to solicit, and rest the scattered soldiers." I am willing to pay tribute, and thank you, and no longer dare to invade the province. ”

I'm just a child, I'm not sensible, and now I'm wrong, so you can spare me.

This will definitely not work, at least we have to cross the river to the south, completely destroy the Li Dynasty, and then escort this child to Kaifeng, which is over.

However, most of the generals said that the food and salaries of the three armies had been exhausted, and since the expedition, a total of 100,000 people and 200,000 men have been officially incorporated into the army, and more than half of them have died due to the miasma of the heat, and those who have not died have been overwhelmed by illness.

This is Guo Kui's mistake, he hesitated in Siming Prefecture for more than two months, and the three armies stayed in Siming Prefecture for more than two months, not to mention that many soldiers and civilians were contaminated with malaria, and the grain and grass had to be moved from Taipingzhai to Siming Prefecture step by step, which would cause a lot of waste. If the three armies were stopped in Guizhou first, would there be so many soldiers contaminated with malaria, and even if there were, it would be better, and the grain and grass would be transported by water, and the consumption would be a little less.

It's not just this problem, now that the three armies are together, you infect me, I infect you, and if you continue to stay, I'm afraid that even these generals will be recruited. More than half of them died, are you afraid?

Now that Jiaozhi has surrendered and achieved the goal, it is better to withdraw the army, so hurry back.

Yongzhou Xinzhizhou Tao Bi was anxious, he said: "Guo Gong, you have to be reused, how does your Majesty expect you?" Now that the great work is about to be completed, do you want to make it fall short? ”

This is not easy to say, if Li Qiande fled to the mountains and forests with his ministers, there would still be no way to catch Li Qiande, but that would destroy Thang Long City, at least Jiaozhi would be more honest in the future.

Listening to everyone's controversy, Guo Kui said: "I can't overturn the thief's nest and capture Qiande to repay the court, and the heavens." I am willing to live more than 100,000 lives. ”

Then he accepted Li Qiande's demotion and sent it to the capital. But Tao Bi still insisted, saying: "The people of the three states, the 100,000 people who were slaughtered without borders, and now they are raising 100,000 people and horses, and the thieves are in their hands and do not take them, so that the thieves will not be smooth, and the injustice of the three states will not be restored. ”

Please note that this time is around New Year's Day, and there are still two months before the spring miasma comes up.

Maybe Guo Kui felt a headache when he saw this complex terrain that covered the sky, and the morale of the generals of the three armies was not high, so he made this decision.

In fact, after this battle, including Zhancheng, they gradually looked down on the Song army, and Han sent envoys over. It turns out that the so-called behemoth is nothing more than a paper tiger. And in another time and space, the battle is recorded in the book of Cochin, which is said to be a victory.

can also be compared with one person, that is Pan Mei.

Jiaozhi gave the northerners a headache, and Lingnan also gave the northerners a headache at this time, but how did Pan Mei destroy the Southern Han?

And Guo Kui also made one thing, Tao Bi insisted, and some generals still agreed with Tao Bi's statement, anyway, so many people died, why did they give up halfway. Guan Jian Taobi was a Wenchen, and in the Song Dynasty, Wenchen was invincible, and Guo Kui couldn't distinguish it.

So Guo Kui was angry, and he led the Chinese army to retreat at night, and there was no military order before the retreat, and the other armies did not know what was happening.

The news reached the capital in February, and the ministers congratulated them with Fu Guangyuan, Su Mao and other states...... (To be continued......)