"Dong Hao, it depends on you." Yan Da said.

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

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

Dali City 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, there are vast mountains on the east side of these basins. At that time, Yang Yizhen used the geographical advantage of these mountains to prevent Gao Zhisheng's army from continuing to move westward. Then there was the story of Yan Da and Hebin's attack, and Yang Yizhen's counterattack was successful.

Now it is Wang Ju's turn to this difficulty.

If the army wants to move west smoothly, it must first break through several key villages, not the gates, because they are all simple military camps built by Yang Yizhen in a dangerous place with the mountains.

Under Dong Hao's command, one bottle of hot tincture was thrown on this Guanzhai. The Guanzhai was relatively high, so the hot tincture was not big.

The main reason is that the army in Dali did not understand this thing, otherwise it would be covered with mud and sand in time, and Yanda would be gone again. But they also knew that it was not good, so a brave general led the man down and rushed down to stop it. However, when he was only halfway through, Yanda commanded the archer of the divine arm and retreated with a rain of arrows. After throwing four or five waves of tinder oil bottles, he threw another thing, wrapped in a ball burning flammable object, and ignited it.

Then he continued to throw the hot turbulent oil bottle.

A sea of ​​fire quickly burned up in front and behind the village gate. The fire was not big, but it was enough.

Seeing the enemy panic, Yan Da ordered: "Run."

However, these Guanzhai did cause some trouble to the Song army. After seven days of hard attack, they took down these six or seven Guanzhai one after another, and sacrificed nearly two thousand officers and soldiers.

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

The afterglow of the evening shone on the ground, and Wang Ju sighed softly: "Three years have passed."

This means that he has been in Guangnan for three years.

"Young security has been in more than three years. It's three years and two months." Wang Zichuan corrected.

"What's the difference?"

“There are big differences.”

"Um……?"

"At the beginning, the Shaobao promised to come to the south for at least three years, or at most four years, to pacify Jiaozhi. In fact, after three years, the court could summon Shaobao back to the capital."

"You boy." Wang Ju patted him on his head. Wang Zichuan meant that three years had passed. Wang Ju promised to pacify Jiaozhi, and it had already been pacified. Now, pacifying Dali is an additional gift to the Song Dynasty. After Dali was pacified, he could summon Wang Ju back to the capital.

It’s not just about returning to Beijing. I believe that Wang Ju can at least enter the two prefectures to be prime ministers this time. Who is the prime minister in the current dynasty? Who doesn’t want it?

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

But it's not just what he thought.

The three armies set out in an orderly manner. Suddenly, the spy from afar quickly rushed over, came to Wang Ju, turned over and dismounted, and said, "Shaobao, the Yang family sent out a 100,000 army from Dali City, and was rushing towards us."

"Talk again and report again." Wang Ju said calmly, and then quickly summoned Yan Da, Miao Lu and the generals of the army to discuss.

"Can the Yang family summon 100,000 troops?" a general asked suspiciously.

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

But there may not be a 100,000 army. At this time, the marching and fighting are mostly imaginary numbers, sometimes real forces, sometimes just scaring people, just like Cao Cao's army of 800,000 went to Jiangnan, but where is there actually? However, he had two tragic battles with Xixia, which Xixia claimed to be 100,000 and 300,000, but the real forces were very close to this number.

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

He attached importance to intelligence. Before the two armies started a war, they sent scouts to a wide range of scouts. They even sent people to lurk in this area very early. However, it was impossible for scouts to count the specific forces one by one, and could only listen to the enemy's comments, or make an approximate estimate after observing.

Yan Da thought for a while and said, "Young Guard, according to my guess, Yang Yizhen probably learned about the news about our other two groups at this time."

The other two routes refer to the southern route soldiers of Yao Lin and Yao Xiong, as well as the Northwest route army brought by Kumamoto. The southern route army marched very quickly. According to the news learned in the morning, they had marched to Kuke, and they were probably close to Yongchang Prefecture, the third prefecture of Yunnan Road in the future. The Yunnan Road established three prefectures, which shows that the court still attaches great importance to this area. Although some people don’t like it, the area of ​​Dali is too large, almost equivalent to a quarter of the area of ​​the Song Dynasty, and the population is a little less, so the three prefectures were established for easy management. However, Wang Ju suspected that the court vaguely wanted to divide Yunnan Road into two or three routes to manage it. After all, it was officially established at the road-level organization. If the possibility of Anshi Rebellion was reduced, it had to be further weakened. If everything was three, there would be no harm left behind.

But Wang Ju didn't know much about the truth.

But this city is also tall and strong. Even if the troops are empty, Yao Lin is not easy to conquer without sufficient siege equipment. Of course, Wang Ju would not let Yao Lin conquer Yongchang City stupidly. The real goal of this industry is not Yongchang Prefecture, but Yunlongsheng in the western part of Dali City.

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

As for where Kumamoto's troops were reached, Wang Ju didn't know much about it, and Yang Yizhen's troops were finally separated from him.

Wang Ju said: "General Yan, what do you mean is that our three troops besieged Dali City, especially the troops behind Dali City were drawn out one after another, and Xiong Gongzheng rushed to Dali at a very fast speed. Yang Yizhen felt dangerous and saw that we divided the troops one after another. The middle army did not have much force, so Yang Yizhen wanted to eat our troops again."

"This is the only choice they can make. If they send troops back, it is not to send troops back. When they hear that there are police in the rear, the army will immediately collapse. If they send troops south, they are a little far apart and mostly mountain roads. Before they can snipe General Yao's troops, we have arrived at the city of Dali."

"Why don't you surrender?" Miao Lu asked.

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

"It's possible."

"Young security, but I think this is an opportunity."

“Tell me.”

"There are many Dianzi (basins) on the east side of Erchi, and some Dianzi are extremely large in area. We have few troops, but there are many cavalrymen." Yan Da said.

Wang Ju doesn't have much force in his hands now, but so what? He was three times the difference between the troops in Qingzhou and Xixia, and he didn't defeat the Xixia army. Besides, it was the army of Dali? The most important thing is that although the Yang family has the advantage of the master, Wang Ju is under the banner of Duan's family. He is not weaker than the Yang family in terms of human harmony. We are outsiders, but you are "chaotic thieves", and everyone is each other.

The other one is the cavalry. Now 90% of the cavalry is concentrated in Wang Ju's hands. Of course, this cavalry cannot be compared with the Mongolian cavalry, but compared with the infantry, they are still small armored vehicles.

And after winning several passes, there are many large basins suitable for large-scale cavalry conflicts in Yunnan, whether in Yunnan or in Pinyuan.

This is the biggest advantage of Wang Ju's army.

Yan Da said again: "So he won it in one battle, then swept it with cavalry, followed the defeated troops, tightened the defeated troops, and took the opportunity to take down the Longwei Pass."

Dali City has four major barriers, Diancang Mountain to the west, Erchi to the east, Longshou Pass to the north, and Longwei Pass to the south. In the 13th year of Tianbao, the Tang Dynasty sent Jiannan Liuhou envoy Mi to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Nanzhao. It was blocked in front of Longwei Pass, and the lack of food and grass, unacceptable to the land and water, and the soldiers were hungry. Many people in the army were infected. So Nanzhao Wanggeluofeng and Tubo joined forces to attack the Tang army, resulting in the annihilation of the 100,000 Tang troops, and Li Mi committed suicide by committing suicide by joining Erhai Lake.

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

Therefore, the first thing to prevent is malaria, and it would be better if the water and the land were not adapted to it. The one who came was not the Central Plains army, but the army on Guangnan West Road. Although it had an impact, it had little impact. The second thing to prevent was food. After so long, Wang Ju raised a large amount of food.

Moreover, Wang Ju's original plan was not intended to attack Longshou Pass and Longshou Pass. These were not the gates set up by Yang Yizhen on the mountains on the west side of Yunnan, but the real gates, which were far more difficult to conquer than Shanchan City.

So Wang Ju planned to come to the shore of Erchi Lake first, and then stalemate first. Then build a ship in large quantities, not afraid of dragging time. The longer the time is, the more unfavorable it is for the Yang family. If the Yang family soldiers come out of the pass and fight, it is best. Then they will divide their troops and horses, one attacking Dali City from the water, and the other is taking a detour from behind Diancang Mountain, crossing Diancang Mountain, and coming to Dali City. Anyway, Wang Ju has trained these two types of troops before, one is multi-functional armies, and the other is special forces, special forces, special forces, special forces, special forces, special forces fighting various mountain terrain.

However, Wang Ju didn't know anything. When Kublai Khan went south to Dali, he was also blocked in front of the Dragon Head Pass, so he sent soldiers to climb over Diancang Mountain and bypass the Dragon Head Pass, which forced Dali to surrender.

The Dragon Head Level has nothing to do with the King of Master, and the Dragon Head Level must be moved away.

But this barrier is very important. To the east is Baiya Road, where Wang Ju must attack immediately. Zhao Xu and Baiya Xu, and to the south is Mengshe Road. If Yang Yizhen is more courageous and divides his troops to attack Yao Lin's army and horses, he will have to walk this road. Then to the southwest is Yongchang Road.

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

In fact, Yan Da basically said the approximate combat plan when he said this. Wang Ju thought about it and agreed to Yan Da’s combat plan.

We started to formulate specific action plans around this idea.

The army of 100,000 Dali arrived soon.

Yang Yizhen gave up the danger of Xiongguan and Xiongcheng, and was indeed helpless. Dali is not like Nanzhao now. At that time, they could invite Tubo to send reinforcements. Now the Tubo on the plateau is already divided into hundreds or thousands of tribes, and each is not unified. Where can Yang Yizhen invite Tubo reinforcements to come?

Moreover, if Wang Ju fights steadily, there will be no situation like Tang Jun.

Even because of Wang Ju's transformation of land and return to Liu, Yang Yizhen could not attack Wang Ju's rear from the flanks. However, even if he did not reform the land and return to Liu, he could not attack Wang Ju's rear. You are a thief, how could you mobilize the Dali people behind the Song army to work hard for him?

Although Dali City is in danger of a heroic pass, once the three troops of the Song army are surrounded, there is no food or grass inside and no rescuers outside, they will be defeated sooner or later. And the homes are falling, how can the soldiers of various troops think? Maybe just like Baozhou City, let their soldiers cut off their heads and ask the Song army to surrender.

So I had to let go.

It is best to win, but it is best to surrender if you lose.

There are six basins in the eastern area of ​​Erchi, the largest one is Zhao, an irregular elongated basin. The second is the long basin in Kainancheng to the south, the second is the oval basin of Baiyayuan, and the second is the round basin of Pinyu, which is two cashew-shaped basin with Yunnan. However, these two basins in Yunnan are not as flat as other basins.

The war broke out on the smaller mountains between the circular basin in Pinzhi and the cashew-shaped basin in southern Yunnan.

A hundred thousand troops came in a fierce manner, but were stubbornly sniped by the Song army.

However, the terrain here is not too dangerous and is not conducive to the defense side. The two armies fought for one day and suffered casualties, while Dali suffered heavy casualties, but the Song army also suffered considerable casualties one after another. The situation was beneficial to Dali, after all, Dali had more troops.

After fighting for a day, Yang Yizhen asked the three armies to stop the attack.

Continue the next day.

This kind of fighting between the Song army was very unfavorable to the Song army. The two-day tragic battles were fought. The Song army suffered almost more than 4,000 casualties.

On the contrary, Yang Yizhen felt a little relieved... there was no other surprise.

The incident began this night.

At the fourth update, the Song army suddenly rushed towards Yang Yizhen's military camp.

Yang Yizhen was still very careful and learned and used it. He dug up trenches and set up camps in the same way as Wang Ju set up camps, and sent 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 a thrust attack on Yang Yizhen's huge barracks like a moth to the fire. Yang Yizhen couldn't figure out what the Song army was doing. Since the Song army was ready to attack, that was the best. So he counted the troops and began to prepare to go out to the camp to take the initiative.

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

This was the third day of the fifth month, and it was the darkest time. In addition, they were attracted to the front together, so it was not until Miaolu rushed to the front of the rear camp that the Dali army discovered them.

There was no way to defend, and cavalrymen rushed into Yang Yizhen's military camp. It was dark again, and Dali lacked mutual cooperation and unified command. In the blink of an eye, the entire 100,000 Dali military horses became chaotic.

As long as it gets messed up, it is doomed to fail.

The sky gradually became brighter, but the Dali tribes fought on their own. In the end, some tribes took the lead in fleeing to the battlefield.

Someone took the lead in running away, and the rest began to run away together.

Miao Lu led more than 10,000 cavalrymen to continue chasing them from behind.

After chasing Longwei Pass all the way, can we not let go of so many defeated soldiers? The worst thing is that Yang Yizhen is still behind and has not escaped. The defenders at Longwei Pass didn't know what to do, so they had to let the defeated soldiers flood into the pass with the cavalry of the Song Dynasty.
To be continued...