"Shaobao, this is a bit cumbersome, isn't it?" Huang Gonggong asked.

In the evening, the five thousand cavalry began to set up camp, it was a regular camp, many soldiers cut down trees, began to erect a fence, because there were horses, so the fence was relatively long, busy for nearly an hour, this camp was erected.

So Huang Gonggong thinks it's cumbersome, but he just rests for one night and sets off tomorrow, why bother so much?

"Lieutenant Envoy Huang, it's not cumbersome, you have to let the soldiers get into habits, and at the same time, you can't underestimate any enemy, often failing, that's when everyone cares the most. Just like I was in Gyeongju, I repeatedly took advantage of the carelessness of the Tangut people and launched attacks again and again. In the spring, I used the troops to fight with the army, and because I was careful to camp, the small group of the army could not succeed......"

There are a few other reasons as well.

Yan Da also said approvingly: "This is the biggest difference between Shaobao and others in the use of soldiers, it is this kind of caution that makes you invincible before you fight." ”

The rest is not said.

But he was thinking in his heart, if Guo Kui also had this kind of caution, why did so many soldiers and civilians die?

Wang Ju gave a look, took Yan Da to the side and asked, "General Yan, what do you seem to want to say on horseback during the day?" ”

"It's my first time to come to the western part of Quang Nam West Road." This is also a fact, Yan Da went south with Guo Kui, and then Wang Ju asked to transfer back to Guangnan, and then went overseas to train troops, and came back this year, and then there was a series of battles, including taking native soldiers to fight "strong bullies", and also assisting Wang Ju to preside over the military affairs of Liangguang, and the westernmost thing to go to was only Hengshanzhai.

Yan Da said again: "I didn't expect this side to be so desolate, so ...... over there"

"It was also desolate over there, but it was backward at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Nanzhao invaded Bashu. Countless Han people were plundered from Bashu. At that time, it was a disaster for Bashu. But now because of these Han people, the civilization in Dali has immediately developed at a high level. ”

Originally, Yanda was very vague about the word civilization, but when he went to the sea, his understanding became profound.

"Therefore, most areas of Dali are better than this section. I know what you're worried about, it's hard to conquer, and it's even harder to cure in the future. ”

"That's it," Yanda said. Wang Ju values him very much. He didn't treat Wang Ju as an outsider and admit it directly.

This was also the mainstream thought of the Song Dynasty.

Just like in history, the Jiaozhi faction scouts instigated, and the people of several southern states did not submit to the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty, what did the Song Dynasty manage? In the end, the following ministers reported that the imperial court could not benefit, so in order to save trouble and make the border peaceful, the five states were returned to Jiaozhi. The barbarians of Qiyuan Prefecture panicked and resolutely opposed the jurisdiction of Jiaozhi. But when the Song Dynasty was in charge of you. I won't even let you pay the tax, and you know how good it is. But more than 900 years later. There are still some people mourning, is Nong Zhigao really a righteous uprising? Those officers and soldiers who were killed by Nong Zhigao forget it, but what happened to those innocent people who got in the way of Nong Zhigao?

and the central and eastern regions of Guizhou, the south is controlled by Luo, and the east is controlled by Tian, which has successively submitted to the Song Dynasty and also belongs to the Song Dynasty's fetters area. But the attitude of the Song Dynasty is still like this, it doesn't matter whether it is sincere or not, as long as it does not invade the people in the area controlled by the Song Dynasty.

If it is such a restraint, it makes no sense to send an army to let them come to a sincere convincing.

If it is directly managed, how? Maybe the South will be troubled from now on.

Wang Ju smiled dumbly: "It turned out to be this...... General Yan, you're too worried. Since I came up with this idea, there will be a way. And this battle will let you see the truth. ”

What does this battle have to do with Dali?

Yanda was puzzled.

The battle was very fast, and the infantry in the rear were a little slower for two or three days, but the cavalry was very fast, and on the morning of the third day they reached the battlefield.

Wang Ju stood on the top of a mountain in the distance, looking west with a telescope.

Hu Guanglin and the officers and soldiers were trapped on a lonely peak, according to the information sent to say that there was a small mountain spring on the peak, which could barely maintain drinking water, and before the barbarian army arrived, a defense line was set up under the peak in time, so the barbarians attacked for more than ten days, but did not take them.

At this time, looking through the telescope, there were about eight or nine thousand to nearly ten thousand barbarian soldiers besieging under the peak. There was also a large wooden statue behind the barbarians, and I don't know what kind of ghost it was. The officers and soldiers over there in Yongzhou have taught so many times, and some remote cottages still have bad beliefs, so don't talk about this side. Wang Ju only glanced at it and continued to look at the soldiers.

Sure enough, the endorsement of the rumors is called groundless, or it is called chasing the wind and catching shadows.

It always has a hole, only the wind, and always the wind, in order to "catch the shadow".

Many brutes do wear two knives, does wearing two knives mean bravery?

In my previous life, I watched Romance and said something about the two guns.

What kind of double-spear generals actually came on the battlefield, such as cavalry, the Tang Dynasty used lances, and the Song Dynasty used long-handled broadswords, because they also had to carry the reins of the horse, so Wang Ju changed it and became a Mongolian sword-style arc saber.

The infantry also let Wang Ju change, either bows and crossbowmen, or sword soldiers, or other weapons, but what double knives, double guns rare weapons, Wang Ju also precepts are not allowed to use, but become a new type of arc knife in one hand, and a rattan shield in the other, which can not only block arrows, but also copy the opponent's weapons.

Therefore, this double knife made Wang Ju snort coldly and skipped it again.

Looking at their equipment, they almost didn't even have armor, so there were constant casualties during the attack on the mountain, despite the signs in front of them.

Equipment is also negligible.

Looking at people again, there is a saying that Ziqi barbarians may be foreign races, from the Bagan country into Dali, and then to Zizha, so the customs are different from other barbarians (the barbarians living in the east of Dali), the birth is ** clean, and the race is slightly tall.

Wang Ju looked at it with a telescope, but he didn't feel that these barbarians were taller than Wuman, and there was not much difference in appearance. It may be that Aijie and ferociousness have caused the people to create illusions and form rumors. But they don't love cleanliness, and in this damp and stuffy mountain area, they are indeed prone to all kinds of diseases. In addition, it is rumored that these barbarians do not learn Chinese, and now there are many people in Dali who can speak Chinese and know Chinese characters. But Wang Ju estimated that this was a deliberate pretense, and we said it in a brut. Are you Han people afraid? But it just doesn't pretend. Wang Ju also has a way to get them to speak Chinese!

Continue looking at the formation. The formation is very scattered, or there is no formation at all, it is a messy mess.

He was watching, and Yan Da and Qu Zhen were also watching.

For this telescope, Wang Ju deliberately sent a boat to Dashi to order, and made more than 3,000 pairs of telescopes before and after, half of which were donated to the imperial court for military use, and half were left at sea. Convenient for navigation needs.

Therefore, almost all the main generals in the army now have this thing.

Yanda said: "Hu Guanglin did a good job this time. ”

He was referring to the place where Hu Guanglin was fortified, located on a lonely mountain, and below the lonely mountain was a meadow, which was relatively flat and wide, except that there was a small river on it, and the river valley was a little deep, but it was still nearly three miles away from the main battlefield, so it was a good place for the cavalry to gallop.

In fact, this is Wang Ju's intentional confession.

Even if you don't have the idea of Dali, these two paths are also very important. To the south is the White Nine Roads and the Special Mill Road, but the danger is not big. The main thing is that some barbarians on this self-explanatory road are blind and ruthless. It's quite troublesome.

So Wang Ju had some explanations very early, including the choice of these fixed locations.

He didn't tell the inside story. He only said, "Let's copy two breads." ”

To deal with this rabble, there is no need for any formation, strangulation is just.

The group went down the mountain, and then Yan Qu and the others divided the cavalry into two and rushed over.

It was just an impact, and there was no such thing as the barbarian who was not afraid to die and fled one by one.

But this is a meadow, with only sparse trees and beans planted by slash-and-burn, can a man outrun a horse here?

Seeing this, Wang Ju asked the herald to wave the flag.

So Yan Qu and the others led their troops to turn the first one to kill again, and at the same time shouted, surrender and not kill. Shouted in Chinese. Then Wang Ju was happy, shouting in Chinese in front of him to surrender and not kill, and lying down in the back. Didn't you say you don't know Chinese?

But it's still a very backward and isolated area.

Now don't say that most of the barbarians in the western part of Guangnan have become honest, that is, west of Hengshanzhai, Nandan Prefecture heard that Wang Ju was rectifying internal governance like a thunderbolt, and also sent envoys to pay a visit. Why would a group of people armed with swords dare to attack the officers and soldiers? Is it invincible to play with two knives?

However, although Wang Ju made a heavy hand, he was not too cruel.

There are also some brutes who are running away, and you are welcome, they catch up with them one by one and kill them all. As long as they lie on the ground and surrender, they are not killed.

Wang Ju and Huang Gonggong rode over, and a barbarian dressed in a gorgeous costume fell on the ground and said: "Zhai Shu (the meaning of barbarian language in western Guangxi in the Song Dynasty, servant, small people) to meet the lord of the ditch (ditch master, official, big ditch master, big official). ”

Wang Ju picked up his head with a straight sword and said, "Speaking Chinese and Chinese, you are not allowed to speak barbarian language, otherwise this official will kill you immediately." ”

"Han Cheap to meet the Lord of the Great Ditch."

"Chinese!" Wang Ju pulled his sword out of its scabbard.

"The little one meets the lord of the big ditch."

Wang Ju was speechless and said: "General Hu, take them down for interrogation one by one, screen out the owners of each village, and the soldiers of each village also screen out and detain them separately." ”

"Whoa." Hu Guanglin responded and began the interrogation.

Wang Ju also asked Hu Guanglin's soldiers to camp with their servants, and then divided the cavalry into several teams to explore the terrain and roads of these cottages.

"It's over so soon?" Huang Gonggong said in surprise.

"Lieutenant Envoy Huang, what do you think, this is General Hu who lured them to this terrain, if it is not this terrain, but put them in the surrounding mountains and forests to fight, what will be the situation?"

"Impermanence?"

"That's what it means."

In the evening, the cavalry came back one after another, but Wang Ju did not make a move, and had to wait for the thousands of infantry behind him to come. If you want to attack the stockade, you can't use cavalry.

But the next day, he began to take these servants and soldiers with him to make some improvised siege equipment.

Three days later, Yao Xiong arrived with his troops.

Wang Ju asked the three armies to hold these prisoners of war, forced them to act as guides and "bump into the Linglang", one by one the villages attacked, immediately put all the strong and powerful villages to death, and then did the same as before, the strong and strong houses were evenly distributed to the villagers, at most some valuable things were kept, but they were also issued to the soldiers of the three armies as rewards. No matter how short of money there is, there is no shortage of money from these poor barbarian landlords.

Yan Dahu asked suspiciously: "Shaobao, do you want to govern this area?" ”

"Governance? I don't want to govern those villages west of Hengshanzhai, and besides, here? Wang Ju smiled and said, "It's just that I plan to plant some seeds." ”

But Wang Ju still sighed secretly in his heart.

Is it really impossible to govern? How were the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties governed? Aren't these three dynasties also ancient?

The main reason is that the system of the Song Dynasty is constrained, and Wang Ju does not dare to really govern this place. Of course, it's okay to be fettered.

Wang Ju asked again: "General Yan, what do you see in this battle?" (To be continued......)