"Dong Hao, it's up to you." Yanda said.

"General Yan, don't worry, leave it to the last general." General Dong Jun said.

As he walked out of the tent, began a series of orders. Then a large number of tiger cannons were pushed out and placed in front of the gate.

The city of Dali is located on the east side of the Diancang Mountains, which is also a mountainous area, but there are many huge basins to the east. However, to the east of these basins, there were vast mountains, and Yang Yizhen took advantage of the geographical advantages of these mountains to prevent Gao Zhisheng's army from continuing to move west. Then there was the story of Yanda and Hebin's two armies flanking, and Yang Yizhen's counterattack was victorious.

Now this difficulty is also Wang Ju's turn.

If the army wants to go west smoothly, it must first break through a few key villages, not passes, because they are all some simple military villages built by Yang Yizhen in the dangerous places on the mountain.

Under the command of Dong Hao, one by one fierce oil bottles were thrown on this village. The Guanzhai is relatively high, so the fierce fire oil bottle is not large.

The main reason is that the army on the Dali side doesn't understand this thing, otherwise it will be covered with sediment in time, and Yanda will have no choice again. But they also knew that it was not good, so a bold general led people to rush down condescendingly, trying to stop it. However, when he was only halfway through, Yan Da commanded the Divine Arm Archers and shot back with waves of arrows. After throwing four or five waves of fierce fire oil bottles in a row, another thing was thrown, wrapped in a burning ball of flammable material, which played a role in ignition.

Then he continued to throw the bottle of fierce fire oil.

A sea of fire quickly burned in front of and behind the fence, the fire was not big, but it was enough.

The sight of the enemy caused panic. Yan Da ordered: "Rush." ”

But these gates did cause some trouble for the Song army. It was fought hard for seven days. Only then did they take these six or seven passes one after another, and paid the sacrifice of nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers.

The Song army slowly arrived in Yunnan, which was very close to Dali City.

The afterglow of the evening sprinkled on the earth, and Wang Ju sighed softly: "It's been three years. ”

This refers to the fact that it has been three years since he came to Quang Nam.

"Shaobao, not only three years, but three years and two months." Wang Zichuan corrected.

"So what's the difference?"

"There's a big difference."

"Huh......?"

"At the beginning, Shaobao promised to come to the south for at least three years, and at most four years to pacify Jiaozhi. Actually, three years have passed. The imperial court can summon Shaobao back to the capital. ”

"You kid." Wang Ju patted him on the head. Wang Zichuan means that three years have passed, Wang Ju promised to pacify Jiaozhi, and he has already been pacified, and now the pacification of Dali is an additional gift to the Song Dynasty, so after Dali is pacified, Wang Ju can be summoned back to the capital.

is not only to return to Beijing, I believe that this time Wang Ju will return to Beijing at least to enter the two mansions as a minister. When the prime minister of the court, which one doesn't want to?

This shows that Wang Zichuan has also made great progress in recent years.

But it's more than he thinks.

The three armies set up camp in an orderly manner, and suddenly the spies in the distance quickly rode over and came to Wang Ju. Turned over and dismounted, and said, "Shaobao." The Yang family sent an army of 100,000 from Dali City and is rushing towards us. ”

"Let's find out and report again." Wang Ju said calmly, and then quickly summoned Yanda and Miao Lu and the generals of the army to discuss.

"The Yang family can still gather 100,000 soldiers and horses?" A general asked suspiciously.

"During this time, the Yang family has recruited a lot of recruits," Wang Ju said.

But there may not be an army of 100,000, at this time the march and battle are mostly imaginary, sometimes it is a real force, sometimes it is just to scare people, just like Cao Cao's 800,000 army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, how can there be in reality? However, he fought two tragic battles with Western Xia, and Western Xia claimed to be 100,000 and 300,000, but the real strength was very close to this number.

Therefore, Wang Ju paused and said, "Although it may be insufficient, it is very close." ”

He attached great importance to intelligence, and before the two armies even went to war, he sent scouts extensively, and even sent people to lurk in this area very early. However, it is impossible to ask the scouts to count the specific forces one by one, and can only listen to the enemy's discussions, or make an approximate estimate after observation.

Yan Da thought for a while and said, "Shaobao, according to my guess, at this time, Yang Yizhen also learned about our other two ways. ”

The other two roads refer to the southern route soldiers of Yao Lin and Yao Xiong, and the northwest route army brought by Kumamoto. The march of the South Route Army was very fast, and according to the news learned in the morning, they had already marched to Kukeji, and it was estimated that they were now approaching Yongchang Mansion, the third capital of the future Yunnan Road. A Yunnan road placed three mansions, which shows that the imperial court still attaches more importance to this area, although some people do not like it, but the area of Dali is too large, almost equivalent to a quarter of the area of the Song Dynasty, that is, the population is a little less, so the three mansions are placed, but also to facilitate management. However, Wang Ju suspected that the imperial court vaguely wanted to divide Yunnan Road into two or three roads for management, after all, it was officially set up as a road-level institution. If you want to reduce the possibility of the Anshi Rebellion, you have to weaken it further. If everything is three, then there will be no residual harm.

But what the truth is, Wang Ju is not very clear.

But this city is also relatively tall and strong, even if the army is empty, Yao Lin does not have sufficient siege equipment, and it is not easy to conquer. Of course, Wang Ju would not stupidly let Yao Lin conquer Yongchang City, the real target of this trip was not Yongchang Mansion, but Yunlongzhi in the western part of Dali City.

Judging from the current trend of troops, it seems that the Song army not only wants to take Yongchang City, but also wants to attack Dali on both sides.

As for where Kumamoto's troops were, Wang Ju didn't know very well, and there was finally Yang Yizhen's soldiers and horses in the middle.

Wang Ju said: "General Yan, do you mean that our three-way soldiers and horses are besieging Dali City, especially the troops in the rear of Dali City, so that Yang Yizhen will be transferred out one after another, and Xiong Chengcheng will kill Dali at a very fast speed. Yang Yizhen felt in danger, and saw that we were dividing our troops one after another, and the middle route army did not have many troops, so Yang Yizhen wanted to eat our soldiers and horses again. ”

"This is the only choice they can make, if they send the army back, it is not to send the army back, and when they hear that there are police in the rear, the army will immediately disperse. If we send the army south, it is a little far away, and there are mostly mountain roads, and before they can snipe General Yao's soldiers and horses, we have arrived at the city of Dali. ”

"Why not surrender?" Miao asked.

"They have more troops than us, how can they surrender?" Yan Dale said.

"It's possible."

"Less insurance. But I think it's an opportunity. ”

"Tell me."

"There are many dianzi (basins) on the east side of Erchi. Some of them are extremely vast. We have few troops. There were many cavalry. Yan Da said.

Wang Ju now has not many troops in his hands, but so what, the difference between the strength of the troops in Gyeongju and the Western Xia was three times that of the beginning, and the Western Xia army was not defeated. Besides, Dali's army? The most important thing is that although the Yang family has the advantage of being the master, Wang Ju is not weaker than the Yang family in terms of people under the banner of the Duan family. We are outsiders, but you are "thieves", and we are each other.

The other is cavalry. Now ninety percent of the cavalry is concentrated in Wang Ju's hands. Of course, this cavalry could not be compared with the Mongol cavalry, but compared to the infantry, they were small armored vehicles.

And after winning a few passes, now whether it is Yunnan or Pinzhi area, there are many large basins suitable for large-scale cavalry conflicts.

This is the biggest advantage of Wang Jujun.

Yan Da said: "Therefore, if you win a battle, you will sweep with cavalry, follow behind the defeated army, and bite these defeated army." Take the opportunity to take the Dragon Tail Pass. ”

There are four major barriers in Dali City, and the west is Diancang Mountain. To the east is Erchi, to the north is Longshou Pass, and to the south is Longwei Pass. In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, the Tang Dynasty sent Jiannan to leave the envoy Mi to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Nanzhao, which was blocked in front of Longwei Pass, coupled with the lack of grain and grass, the water and soil were not adapted, the soldiers were hungry, and many people in the army were sick. So the king of Nanzhao, Ge Luofeng, and Tubo united to attack the Tang army, resulting in the annihilation of the 100,000 Tang army, and Li Mi committed suicide by throwing himself into Erhai.

Of course, Wang Ju wanted to attack Dali City, and he also noticed this history.

Therefore, the first prevention is malaria, and it is better to adapt to the water and soil, and it is not the Central Plains army that comes, but the army of Guangnan West Road, although it has an impact, the impact is not great. The second defense is food, and after such a stalemate, Wang Ju raised a large amount of food.

And Wang Ju's original plan did not intend to storm Longshou Pass and Longwei Pass, which were not those passes set up by Yang Yizhen on the mountains west of Yunnan, but the real heavy passes, which were far more difficult to overcome than Shanxian City.

Therefore, Wang Ju planned to come to the shore of Erchi Lake first, and then stalemate first, and then build ships on a large scale, not afraid of delaying time, the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be to the Yang family's military horses. If the soldiers of the Yang family go out of the customs and fight, it will be the best. Then divide the troops and horses, one from the waterway to attack Dali City, the other is from the back of the Diancang Mountain, over the Diancang Mountain, to Dali City. Anyway, Wang Ju had trained these two kinds of soldiers and horses before, one was a multi-functional force on land and water, and the other was a special force, which was specialized in dealing with various mountainous terrain combat routes.

However, Wang Ju didn't know one thing, when Kublai Khan went south to Dali, he was also blocked in front of Longshou Pass, so he sent soldiers to climb over Diancang Mountain and bypass Longshou Pass, which forced Dali to surrender.

The Dragon Head Pass has nothing to do with Wang Ju, and the Dragon Tail Pass must be out of the way.

But this pass is very important, to the east is the White Cliff Road, where Wang Ju must attack immediately, Zhao Ji and White Cliff Road, straight south is Mengshe Road, if Yang Yizhen is a little stronger, divide the troops to snipe Yao Lin's military horses, and take this avenue. Further southwest is Yongchang Road.

If you don't need to bypass it, you can take it directly, which will save Wang Ju a lot of trouble.

In fact, when Yan Da said this, he basically said the approximate battle plan. Wang Ju thought about it and acquiesced to Yanda's battle plan.

With this idea in mind, everyone began to develop a concrete action plan.

Dali's 100,000-strong army soon arrived.

Yang Yizhen gave up the danger of Xiongguan Xiongcheng, and was indeed forced to be helpless, now Dali is not like Nanzhao, at that time they can ask Tubo to send reinforcements over. Now that the Tubo on the plateau has long been divided into hundreds and thousands of tribes, each of which is not unified, where did Yang Yizhen ask for reinforcements from Tubo?

Moreover, Wang Ju's steady and steady progress will not lead to the situation of the Tang Army.

Even because of Wang Ju's land change and return, Yang Yizhen had no way to attack Wang Ju's rear from the flank. But even if he doesn't change the land and return to the stream, he has no way to attack Wang Ju's rear, you are a thief, how can you encourage the Dali people behind the Song army to work for him?

Although Dali City is in danger of Xiongguan, once the Song army is surrounded by soldiers and horses, there is no food and grass inside, and there is no rescue outside, sooner or later it will be defeated. And the homeland has fallen, what do the soldiers of the various ministries think? Maybe it's like Baozhou City, let his soldiers cut off their heads and ask the Song army to surrender.

So I had to let it go.

It's best to win, and if you're defeated, you're going to surrender.

There are six major basins in the eastern area of Erchi. The biggest piece is in Zhao Zhen. An irregularly elongated basin. The second is the long basin of Kainan Castle in the south. Then there is the oval basin of Baiya, then the circular basin of Pinzhen, and the two cashewnut-shaped basins of Yunnan Zheng. However, these two basins in Yunnan are not as flat as those in other basins.

The war was fought on the relatively dwarf hills between the circular basin of Pinjiao and the cashew-shaped basin south of Yunnan.

The 100,000-strong army came violently, but was stubbornly sniped by the Song army.

However, the terrain here is not too treacherous, not very conducive to the defending side, the two armies fought for a day, there were casualties on each other, and Dali casualties were more heavy. However, the Song army also suffered a lot of casualties one after another, and the situation was favorable to Dali, after all, Dali had more troops.

After a day of fighting, Yang Yizhen asked the three armies to stop attacking.

Continued the next day.

This kind of mutual fight was very unfavorable to the Song army, and in two days of fierce fighting, the Song army's casualties reached almost more than 4,000 people.

On the contrary, Yang Yizhen felt a little relieved...... There were no other surprises.

It was this night that the change began.

At the fourth watch, the Song army suddenly pounced on Yang Yizhen's military camp.

Yang Yizhen is still very careful and learns to apply. Imitate the way Wang Ju set up camp and dig a trench. Set up a camp fence and send soldiers to patrol day and night.

Therefore, the Song army's attack on the camp was very unsuccessful, but the Song army continued to launch waves of attacks on Yang Yizhen's huge barracks like moths to fire. Yang Yizhen couldn't figure out what the hell Song Jun was doing, since Song Jun let it attack, it was the best. So he counted the soldiers and horses, and began to prepare to go out of the camp and take the initiative to attack.

At this moment, Miao Lu led more than 10,000 cavalry to his rear.

It was the third day of the fifth month, when the moonlight was at its darkest, and they were attracted to the front together, so it was not until Miao Lu pounced in front of the rear camp that the Dali army found them.

There was no way to defend, and the cavalry entered Yang Yizhen's military camp, and it was dark at night, coupled with the lack of mutual cooperation and unified command in Dali, in the blink of an eye, the entire 100,000 Dali military horses were in chaos.

As long as it is messed up, it is doomed.

The sky gradually brightened, but the various tribes in Dali fought their own battles, and in the end, some tribes took the lead in escaping the battlefield.

Some people took the lead in escaping, and the rest began to flee.

Miao Lu led more than 10,000 cavalry to continue to chase behind.

Chased all the way to Longwei Pass, so many defeated soldiers, can you not let them go? What's worse is that Yang Yizhen herself is still behind and did not escape. The defenders on Longwei Pass didn't know what to do, so they had to let the defeated army and the cavalry of the Song Dynasty pour into the pass.

But it also only let Miao Lu take the Longwei Pass, the Dali army in the city heard the news ahead, and immediately gathered the army out of the city to rescue, at this time Miao Lu did not have many troops, so he had to stop the attack, and let Yang Yizhen escape into Dali City. However, the strategic task was achieved.

"Dali's army is too weak," said a general surnamed Gao.

Yan Da knocked his head and said, "It's not too weak, it's a lack of military discipline and cooperation." ”

But this battle was undoubtedly a huge surprise, Wang Ju successfully entered Longwei Pass, but did not immediately attack Dali City, but divided his forces to sweep the surrounding tribes together, and changed the land and returned to the stream.

At this time, the city of Dali was in chaos.

Some are going to surrender, some are going to retreat.

Yang Yizhen hesitated.

But this situation is what Wang Ju wants the most, and this victory is an unexpected joy. However, it pushed forward the time of this road by nearly ten days, and it was out of touch with the other two roads.

However, Wang Ju was really afraid of Yang Yizhen's retreat, so he sent an envoy into Dali City to persuade Yang Yizhen to surrender, saying that he would give you a one-month period, which was already past the one-month period, but now he will give you a chance, and you will be limited to surrender within ten days and spare you from death.

Yang Yizhen was forced to have no choice, so he sent an envoy to ask Wang Ju, I surrendered, what will the Song Dynasty give me?

Wang Ju replied, what kind of treatment do you think our court will give you, think about it, and give you an answer in two days.

After the envoy left, Wang Ju said, "General Yan, arrange for people to block the Cangshan intersection." ”

"Whoa."

There are two lines of soldiers and horses, Yao Lin's soldiers and horses are a little earlier, although this road has to go a long way, but they are not war-oriented, and the speed is faster. Therefore, Yang Yizhen could not be allowed to know that the real destination of Yao Lin's soldiers and horses was Yunlongzhen.

As for Kumamoto's soldiers and horses, they are Ming Qi and cannot be hidden. There is no need to hide it.

Therefore, the intersection of Diancangshan Road must be blocked.

Then Wang Ju found the Duan brothers. Take them out of Longwei Pass. Looking at this familiar Xiongguan, the brothers were somewhat mixed.

Wang Ju led them to the foot of a tea mountain and said, "This is the sealed field of your Duan clan in the future." ”

"Thank you."

"No thanks, the war is coming to an end."

"What happened to the old thief?"

"Don't worry, I will give you a satisfactory explanation of the Duan family. But I brought you here, not to say that the war is over, but that the war is over, and I will soon leave Dali. ”

"Less than ......"

"You don't have to worry. The official who succeeded me is Zhang Zhifu, and he and I are good friends, and I will ask him to take care of you, and as for the officials in the future, they will be divided into political and military financial and criminal punishments, and it is impossible to be arbitrary. But there are a few, you have to remember that Dali City is the capital of your Duan clan, and the future is not Dali Country, but Yunnan Road, and the capital is Shanxian City. And His Majesty gave it the name Kunming Mansion. Although there will be no restrictions on your brother's freedom in the future, you must remember two things. ”

"Those two points. Please give me the order. ”

"The first point, occasionally go to the capital to meet Your Majesty, not to please Your Majesty, but to please the ministers in the court, everyone is not hostile to you, and you Duan can enjoy the glory of this county king with the Great Song Dynasty forever. The second point is to warn your children and grandchildren, don't have other non-part ideas, the strongest soldiers are in the north, not the south, and you can't realize the wrong ideas, but make your Duan clan and the people of this side miserable, including Dali City, although I will make this a fief of your Duan clan, it is best to come less ......"

"I know, after studying, the Lord ......," Duan Zhengchun said.

"Then there is so pitiful as Queen Liu? However, you have to learn the wisdom of Empress Liu, especially your identity, it is precisely because of this identity that I sent someone to rescue you, and I repeatedly asked His Majesty to give you the title of prince of the county, as well as various subsidies, but it is also because of this identity that you have to be careful, after all, there are some excessive actions in this identity, which will lead to the suspicion of melon fields and plums. ”

"The grace of Shaobao, Zhengming will never forget."

"Don't say that, I hope this land will be peaceful as soon as possible." Wang Judao.

Two days later, Wang Ju sent an envoy into the city, saying, I don't know what conditions I put forward, so that you can be satisfied and surrender, you yourself said.

At this time, Duan Zhengming's title of the king of the county had not yet come down, so Yang Yizhen said, at least the king of the county, and I don't want to enter the capital.

After two days, Wang Ju said again, this condition is too high, can it be lowered.

In fact, at this time, Yao Lin's soldiers and horses had already arrived at Yunlongzhi, that is, the west road of Dali Mansion was blocked by the Song army.

For the time being, Yang Yizhen didn't know, so he said that at least he was the Duke of the Kingdom, and let me stay in Dali.

But this time, Wang Ju didn't reply.

However, Yang Yizhen soon received a piece of news that the Song army's Northwest Route military horses had broken through Sanzhi City, Chengji City, Niuzhi City, and Hechuan City in succession, and the troops were under Luolu City.

Yang Yizhen was shocked and sent an envoy to see Wang Ju, but this time Wang Ju didn't even see the envoy and was directly detained. Yang Yizhen felt bad, so he sent more people to inquire about the news. As a result, the news came that the city of Rolu had been breached.

Kumamoto didn't bring much siege equipment either, but the troops in the rear were taken away by Yang Yizhen, and there were no soldiers to defend, so the road was like a bamboo. And Yang Yizhen got another piece of news that the other Song army was not attacking Yongchang City, but the strange soldiers inserted into Yunlongzhen, and after taking Yunlongzhen, they were marching to Diancang Mountain from the west.

"I've been tricked." Yang Yizhen thought blankly.

So he sent an envoy to ask Wang Ju to surrender.

But this time, Wang Ju not only did not see the messenger, but on the contrary, he slowly pulled the army out of Longwei Pass and approached the city of Dali. As Kumamoto quickly approached Longshou Pass, Yao Lin led his army to cross over from Diancang Mountain, attacked from the north and south, and Longshou Pass was breached.

The three-way soldiers and horses surrounded the city of Dali, and Wang Ju ordered the three armies to prepare to attack the city, and at this moment, the city suddenly became a mess. Some people want to fight, some people want to surrender, and they start fighting. After Wang Ju saw the scene in the city from the tower, he gave the order: "Siege the city." ”

The Dali guards at the head of the city just made a look, and the Song army boarded the city, opened the city gate, and the three armies poured into the city.

Wang Ju said to Wang Zichuan: "You immediately go to Shanxian City and tell General Hebin this good news, this is the third country ......" (to be continued......