This was Yao Lin's temporary idea, but the generals were all moved in their hearts.

If you don't want to occupy Dali, forget it, it's an occupation, not a war of annihilation like the one that treats Zhancheng.

But if you want to occupy Dali, it is still more troublesome.

The least troublesome thing in Dali is that their main body, Baiman, is equal to a semi-Han group, which is mainly distributed in Dali, Chuwei (Chuxiong), Yongchang (Baoshan), Xiushan (Yuxi), Nongdong (Dayao), Huichuan (Huili).

Bai Man is now almost the same as the customs of the Han people, and they all have Han surnames, Zhang Wang, Li Zhao, Yang Zhou, Gao Duan, He Su, Gong Yin, Dong Sun, Yuan Ren is the surname, the slight difference is that the people of the Central Plains believe in Buddhism more, and like to embed the name of the Buddha into the name, such as Zhang Panruoshi, Lu Shi, Yaokong and so on. This doesn't matter, on the contrary, the more you believe in Buddhism and don't like to kill, the easier it is to govern, and there is also a mature tax system, that is, if the Song Dynasty takes over Dali, at least in such a vast area as Baiman, it will not worry about taxes.

Tax ...... It's really important! Don't mention the accumulation of money, at least the cost of management can be maintained, and the people of the Central Plains don't have to post it upside down.

The rest are a handful of tribes.

The golden tooth Baiyi between Dali and Jiaozhi, this will make Wang Ju painful, if you don't get Jiaozhi, don't care about them, maybe they can be used as a buffer zone, just like the "Southwest Zhuyi" in Guizhou between the Song Dynasty and Dali, but get Jiaozhi, the golden tooth Baiyi also has to be managed. Others, such as the barbarians, the Lu barbarians, the naked barbarians, the Heman, the Wangman, the wingman, etc., live in western Sichuan, western Yunnan, southern Yunnan, northern Burma, and northern Laos.

But the barbarians must be managed. Otherwise, the Song Dynasty and Dali would be cut off. It's not just about management. It is also necessary to manage it holistically. In this way, from Guangnan West Road to Bashu, it can form a whole with Dali.

However, the barbarian people are fierce, and some areas are very treacherous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if they can annihilate most of their main force in this battle, they can lay a solid foundation for taking the barbarians.

Maybe you don't have to be so troublesome, you can go directly to Dali.

Otherwise, it will be executed according to Wang Ju's plan. It's a long time coming, and the longer it is, the more variables there are.

Wang Ju was also thinking.

Indeed, it seems, these barbarians are even worse than he imagined.

He said, "Let's go back." ”

Although the barbarians were poor, they also sent scouts, but these scouts were not as good as the original Song army, not to mention the scouts of Western Xia and Wang Ju's attention to scouts.

However, this group of people stood here and observed, maybe the barbarian scouts would find out. There will be danger.

The group returned.

Wang Ju said: "Let's go according to the original plan." ”

Yao Lin was a little disappointed, too steady. Not necessarily steady!

Wang Ju said again: "I thought about it on the road, is the black man a real plagiarism, or is it a fierce inward? ”

"This ......"

I couldn't help but ponder.

For example, it was more evil to be arrogant, but what about the reality?

Wang Ju said again: "If it is a strong inward, if they are defeated in this battle, many tribes will not dare to come, and it will be a trouble." ”

"Dali is not afraid of destroying the country?"

"Lean on the city to defend, and the city to defend and counterattack."

If that's the case, the Song army will be miserable, is the real city so easy to attack?

Wang Ju said again: "But what General Yao said also has some truth, so let's send a light cavalry to rob them of their grain and grass, and then try to humiliate them." ”

"Whoa."

Dealing with such an army is too simple for the battle-hardened Song army soldiers.

Yao Xiong led a light cavalry under the leadership of the scouts, pounced to the southwest, and on the third day, he brought a Dali army and horses, which not only robbed the grain and grass of this group of men and horses, including hundreds of cattle and sheep, as well as hundreds of soldiers and civilians who were carrying grain, but also successfully brought them back to Ziqi.

Yanda sent people to interrogate, but it was a military and civilian from the Luowen Ministry, and it seemed that the Luowen Ministry sent a lot of troops this time and also supported a large amount of food and supplies. But it's not surprising that the Yetho Department used to be the Pumo Department, and the Pumo Department used to be the Luowen Ministry, but through the confessions of these people, I learned that the largest number of troops came were mainly more than a dozen tribes near the Yetho Department, and those who were a little further away might not have time to catch up in the future, but it is estimated that there would not be many troops sent to support.

After Yan Da asked about some other information, he stripped the people of their clothes and let them all go back naked.

This humiliation really made all the departments furious. However, before their troops and horses arrived, they did not dare to challenge the Song army, so in order to retaliate, they divided part of their forces and attacked some villages in Ziqi. However, as soon as the soldiers and horses of the three routes arrived in the territory of Ziqizhou, they were attacked by the cavalry of the Song army and returned with a heavy defeat. However, in order not to expose his true combat effectiveness, Wang Ju only sent a small number of cavalry, and did not dump all the barbarian soldiers and horses that came from three directions.

The war officially began.

Several skirmishes made the barbarians realize that the Song army looked no different from the barbarian army, at least in terms of armor and weapons, everyone was about the same.

But the actual combat effectiveness may be above that of the barbarian army.

However, the Song Dynasty inexplicably started a war for a woman, and the conflict began, and most people also broke off their desire for peace, so they had to continue to ask for help from the rear.

More and more soldiers and horses came in, but the Song army always confronted the Dali army and did not make a move.

At this time, Wang Ju received a piece of information: "Ah Chang? ”

"Ah Chang of Gehu Village." Yanda said.

"How many chiefs in Ziqizhou have not changed their Han surnames?"

Wang Ju used two soldiers against Ziqi, and in the process of using troops the second time, most of the barbarian chieftains were killed by the Song army, and their land and houses were equally distributed to the people in the village, and then the state was established and the county was established. However, there are a very small number of barbarian leaders who see that something is wrong and actively cooperate, and this is not easy to start. There are also a very few areas in the deep mountains and old forests, mainly in some areas bordering the Luo clan, where they are too remote and inconvenient to use troops, and some of them have also been spared, but they are not allowed to be at ease in the future, and they have also sent people to these villages to give orders to them, so that they must cooperate with the government to govern and govern the people on this side in the future, and if they do not agree, they will still use soldiers. Under this kind of coercion, they all surrendered. Most of the barbarian chiefs also used Han surnames.

There are very few, though. The original brute name is still used. It was not embellished with a Han surname, let alone changed to a Han name.

"I don't know much about this, I have to ask Huang Zhizhou."

"How many villagers do you want to cooperate with this Achang?"

"There seem to be five or six villages, but this Achang is very active and is still attracting other villages."

"It is also inevitable, first, I do not accept the constraints of the government, and second, I do not allow them to be too harsh to the villagers, and some of the remaining barbarian leaders will inevitably disobey. At that time, I was afraid that our army would be strong. Convinced for the time being, now that the Dali army is here, I have another idea, let them be......"

Yan Da understood, this is the information from the scouts, saying that the leader of Gehuzhai Achang was dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty's jurisdiction over him, and saw that Dali was gathering an army, so he contacted some villages and wanted to take refuge in Dali. At the time of the decisive battle, they fought their way out from the mountains to the northwest. Straight into the back of the Song army.

The Song army can stifle this threat in advance, or let it go. Let the barbarians have the illusion that they can defeat the Song army and attract more barbarian troops to come.

Wang Ju took a post-strategy.

Some of the migrating inland people have already arrived in Cochin, and the two armies continue to confront each other.

The scouts came again to report that Dali's army had officially arrived, and the armies of the Barbarians who had assembled to Ziqi were getting fewer and fewer.

Yao Lin asked: "Shaobao, will they strike first?" ”

After all, the number of troops on Dali's side has now reached more than 50,000, but Wang Ju's troops on the card of Ziqizhou are only 25,000 soldiers and horses. If you talk about cavalry, Dali also has cavalry. And Ah Chang supports it.

"I don't know...... It may use the advantage of military strength, send envoys to pressure us to sue for peace, and may start a war, after all, the Wu Barbarians are not from the Gao family. Wang Ju said.

The generals couldn't help but think of Wang Ju's yellow bird plan, but they were speechless.

Wang Ju paused and said, "But we don't have to wait any longer. ”

You can still wait, and there are still a few barbarians who have not sent troops to arrive, but if you continue to wait, you may not be able to wait for more Dali reinforcements.

So Wang Ju decided to start working.

There were also disputes in Dali's barracks, some of them wanted to take the initiative to attack, and some of them continued to insist on peace. And not only the reinforcements sent by Dali, but also the 29 coalition troops that arrived in the 37th Wuman, and the 37th Wuman under the various affiliated small tribes, so there was a lot of noise.

But this time there were more people in favor of taking the initiative, because they did have the advantage in their forces.

Just as everyone was arguing again, suddenly there was a report from outside, saying that there was a Song army in the south of Ziqi that was suddenly killing Luo Xiong along the warm water.

Everyone was shocked, now the surrounding forces are concentrated at the junction of Yetho and Ziqi, the strength of the Luo Xiong Department is empty, once the Song army takes the Luo Xiong Department, it can quickly go straight in, take the Milu Department, the Shizong Department, and the Luowen Department, which is to cut off their back road together.

"How many Song Jun?" The leader of the Luo Xiong tribe, Pan Qijia, asked nervously.

"More than 10,000 Song troops." The scout said.

"Let's find out and report again."

"Whoa."

It was just a small division of troops, and it disrupted the plans of the various departments in Dali at once. Not only the leaders of the Luoxiong Department were nervous, but also the leaders of the Milu Tribe, the Shizong Division, the Luowen Division, the Maitreya Division, and the surrounding departments of the Luomeng Department were nervous.

This Song army was mostly infantry, carrying grain and grass, and the marching speed was not fast, and the scouts soon came back to report that there were still more than 10,000 Song troops, probably around 10,000 to 12,000 soldiers and horses, which were already very close to Luo Xiong's department.

In desperation, Li Yuantong, the chief general sent by Dali, had to gather everyone to discuss.

Because we can learn from the previous conflicts, compared with the Dali army, the combat effectiveness of the Song army is slightly higher, so 30,000 troops were sent to the south to snipe the more than 10,000 Song army soldiers and horses, and the rest of the people held their positions and used the terrain and camp fence to prevent the counterattack of the main force of the Song army on the opposite side.

The Battle of Warm Water begins.

The allied forces of the various departments of Dali quickly caught up with this Song army, and the Dali people were overwhelming, and quickly forced the Song army to a desperate passive defense.

After a day of fighting, both sides stopped, camped and rested.

When night came, Qu Zhen quickly headed west with 10,000 cavalry.

In fact, many people in Dali are wrong, the Song army is not afraid that they have too many troops, but now the Song army hates that they have too few troops. And the terrain of this area is ......

Wang Ju deliberately chose the Yetho tribe to clash with it, because the mountainous terrain here is mainly conducive to defense, which can attract more barbarian troops to support. Of course, if a war is really waged in this area, the Song army will still have a large number of casualties.

But the main battlefield is not here at all, but to the east of the Luo Xiong Division, the terrain here is similar to the terrain in the southeast of Ziqizhou, except that Xiaoxiu Peak is a little denser, but the remaining sixty percent is still a flat slope, enough for the cavalry to gallop at will.

Therefore, let Miao Lu lead 10,000 infantry to attract Dali's troops, and Qu Zhen led the cavalry from the rear to attack.

The battle begins, the battle ends.

The next day, just after dawn, Qu Zhen's 10,000 cavalry killed.

Although the Song army is still very small in terms of troops, it is a well-disciplined army that has undergone many actual battles and cooperative training, and the 30,000 soldiers and horses in Dali are almost a rabble.

After just a few sprints, the Dali army collapsed.

The two Song armies continued to chase and kill, while shouting in barbarian language, surrendering without killing.

At the same time, Wang Ju and Yan Da slowly brought 30,000 Song troops to the Dali army, and did not attack, but forced this army into the camp.

Yao Xiong led another cavalry to the south.

There are blockades in front, chasing soldiers in the back, and most of them are fast cavalry, and the Dali armies that escaped have no choice, so they lay down their arms and surrendered one by one.

At noon the next day, Miao Lu, Qu Zhen and Yao Xiong led their subordinates to the front of the Dali military camp with 21,000 prisoners of war. In the battle of Wenshui, Dali was defeated too badly, and there were not many soldiers actually killed, only more than 2,000 people, and the rest were forced by the Song army to use the advantage of cavalry, almost more than eighty percent were captured alive.

Wang Ju rode a horse, came to the front of the army, and shouted to the three armies of Dali: "Li Yuantong, and the leaders of the various departments, listen well, I am Wang Ju of the Great Song Dynasty, please surrender immediately, and promise not to kill if you surrender." If you don't surrender within the three pillars of incense, there will be no forgiveness! (To be continued......)