He decided not to go home for now, so he turned a small turn and headed to two southwest major towns in Zhaozhou and Pennsylvania. On the 18th, Liu Yingchen, the governor of Zhaozhou, abandoned the city and fled. Wang Zhenglun, the governor of Jin of Guangxi, died in battle, and Zhaozhou fell.

At this time, the Song Dynasty court was almost at a loss for the land of Guangdong and Guangxi. Some people suggested that Nong Zhigao's purpose was to be the governor of Yong and Gui and other seven states. Why not help him in exchange for peace in the world? Liang Shi, deputy envoy of Privy Councilor, firmly opposed "In this way, can the land of Guangdong and Guangxi still be owned by the court?" After Renzong asked Prime Minister Pang Ji for advice. Pang Ji strongly recommended Di Qing, who was promoted to Deputy Envoy of Privy Councilor more than three months ago, to the emperor. This was the only remaining famous general on the battlefield of the northwest of the Song Dynasty. After a few years of fighting with Dangxiang and Li Yuanhao, he had to count it.

Now there is only one general who can be famous in the Song Dynasty. Di Qing himself volunteered. Yiri came into opposition, and the emperor praised his words. So on September 28, Di Qing was appointed as the envoy of Xuanhui South Court and the Xuanfu Envoy of Jinghu South North Road. He was promoted to the east of Guangnan and the west road to control the thieves. According to convention, he was also sent to serve as a "military supervisor" to serve as Shouzhong. The censor Li Dui opposed "sending military supervisors in the army, and the chief general was restricted everywhere. This was a problem since the late Tang Dynasty. Now that Di Qing is used, you should trust him and not let him be restricted again."

On October 4, the Song Dynasty dispatched 5,000 elite cavalry from three routes in Shaanxi, Huanqing and Jingyuan to report to Di Qing. Some people believe that Lingnan is mountainous and is not suitable for cavalry combat, but Di Qing disagreed.

On the 5th, Nong Zhigao captured Pennsylvania, and the governor Chen Dongmei abandoned the city and fled.

On the 7th, the court handed Di Qingkong 100 letters (the certificate of reward for the Ministry of War) to Di Qingkong (they can be registered as an official after filling in the name) (the certificate of reward from the Ministry of War) and 200 pieces of brocade jackets and gold and silver belts to prepare for his military merits. On the 8th, a legend began in the Chuigong Hall, deep in the Great Song Dynasty Palace: he would leave behind a heroic reputation that has been passed down through the ages, and at the same time he would destroy everything himself!

Emperor Renzong personally held a banquet for Di Qing. Nearly a hundred years later, the Song Dynasty sent its first general to conquer Lingnan for the second time, and it was the first time since Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne. Di Qing had the right to slaughter all military and political affairs in the south alone. This was unprecedented trust and unprecedented pressure. In this regard, Di Qing left a sentence like this: "My ministers will work on their own, and they will not be able to serve the country without fighting. I wish to get hundreds of cavalrymen from the foreign countries to ban the troops, and the thieves will be imprisoned, and the thieves will be in the custody." His wish was fulfilled.

Yes, the Song Dynasty sent 15,000 elite cavalrymen and followed him to fight the decisive battle in Lingnan for 15,000. This number is not much, but referring to the military strength of the 10 states when Pan Mei pacified the Southern Han Dynasty, it should be said that it is only high and not low. As for the quality, the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, which had just experienced the tempering of the Western Xia war, has become the strongest army of the Northern Song Dynasty since then! Until the collapse of the empire, it carried the last hope of the Han people! Even the most brave Yue Family Army of the Song Dynasty, the essence was composed of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty!

On the 12th, Nong Zhigao successfully joined the army and returned to Yongzhou. The governor Song Kelong abandoned the city and fled.

The strongest army moved to the south, and Di Qing's order was passed to Guangdong and Guangxi before the army: 1 He ordered all the troops to stand on time and not to fight until he led his troops to arrive. 2 He ordered Lord Yu Jingyu to stop that peerless move, otherwise I will kill you!

Yu Jing came up with a super "smart" trick! One question: Who is the person Nong Zhigao is most afraid of? Yes! Jiaozhi people! He killed his father and was sentenced to labor camps. He has always been a shameless person with his tail between his tail and never dared to breathe loudly. So can we join forces with Jiaozhi people and ask them to send troops to the country to support him?

Very good! Do it as you say it! Yu Jing transferred a large amount of property given to him by the court to Emperor Taizong of the Li Dynasty at that time. Li Dezheng, whose official position in the Song Dynasty was called "Jiaozhi County Prince". So Li Dezheng ordered 50,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry to go to the Song Dynasty in Yongzhou, and at the same time made a request: first pay 20,000 stagnants of cash, and also prepare enough food and grass for 10,000 people to survive near Yongzhou. This created a fact: that the people of Jiaozhi could enter the Song Dynasty openly and kill people! Since ancient times, the army of soldiers and bandits have been a family. When fighting, domestic troops will be rushing to fight rabbits, let alone foreign "friendly and neighboring" troops? What's more, the Chinese people have to apply for support to wipe out a group of bandits in the mountains and forests? Believe it or not, the Jiaozhi people will be thieves and always want to rush in and burn, kill and loot? This is really driving wolves into tigers, and it's so stupid! Di Qing ordered Yu Jing to write a letter to the Jiaozhi people immediately and tell them to get out! They didn't even have the qualification to know about the Song Dynasty!

Yu Jing chose to implement these two orders. On January 6, 1053, he greeted Jiaozhi, and asked Li Dezheng to stay honestly in the country, without any of them. Another thing was that Di Qing's strict orders were not allowed to go to fight, and he had a brief memory. He summoned Chen Shu, the former commander of the Southern Army, and ordered him to go to fight immediately and not let Di Qing steal the first prize!

Chen Shu's mentality became subtle, Yu Jing had to listen to the orders of Yu Jing, and the soldiers' mentality of competing for merit could not be suppressed. Moreover, the army had long become a happy family. There was no military law to deal with it in n years. Is it a big deal to disobey General Di's military order? According to convention, Lord Yu will also speak at that time. How dare Di Qing, a martial artist, refute the face of the civil servant?

After thinking about it, there was no danger. Chen Shu led 8,000 soldiers to attack Kunlun Pass, but lost in vain. When he retreated, he never imagined what would be waiting for him!

On the morning of the 8th, Di Qing's army arrived in Pennsylvania. This place became the base camp of the Song army. All the official troops in Guangdong and Guangxi, including two civil servants Sun Mian, and Yu Jing all came to meet!

When Di Qing was promoted to the tent, the first thing he did was to deal with Chen Shu. Looking back on history, since the Song Dynasty, to be precise, it was from Emperor Taizong of Song Zhao Guangyi, who was quite kind to the soldiers, which was specifically reflected in the defeat and innocence. Referring to the battle of Youyan, Yongxi's defeat in the northern expedition, he did not see anyone being killed, so no one would take Chen Shu's small failure this time to heart.

But Di Qing's order was to push out 32 failed generals and officials below Chen Shu together, and to carry out military law! The execution of 32 people at one time was only done by the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin in the history of the Song Dynasty. It was almost 100 years old, and it was as far away as the story in the legend. It suddenly reappeared, shocking everyone!

Yu Jing stood up, and what he said was very skillful. "Chen Shu committed military law, and I also have the crime of restraint." It seemed that he was actively admitting his mistakes, but in fact he was pulling up the civil servant group in the past. What? Do you still want to kill civil servants?

In front of everyone, Di Qing's answer was even more skillful, "You are a civil servant and will not be dealt with by military law." The implication is: If you are a military general, I will kill you now!

According to historical records, "Jing Quran's bow" this censor who dared to challenge the emperor and became famous all over the country immediately became honest. 32 bloody heads cast a military discipline like Di Qing in a moment!

The military power was established, but Di Qing's next action was very strange. He stayed motionless in Pennsylvania City, and his only order was to order the 10-day food and grass for 10 days... Everyone was wondering: What exactly did he want to do? He wanted to decide the victory or defeat within 10 days and defeat Nong Zhigao, who was invincible in Guangdong and Guangxi? No! The defeat was not enough, and Inn Zhigao would escape! There was no food and grass at that time. Should everyone go hungry to chase people? After thinking about it, everyone came to a conclusion: General Di had other plans and the war would not break out in a short period of time!

Such an idea also arises in the heart of Nong Zhigao in Yongzhou City. Poor Nong Zhigao would not have thought that these 10 days were the watershed of his destiny. He had the most critical point about victory or defeat in his hand - Kunlun Pass!

Kunlun Pass is located in the northeast of Yongzhou City and the east side of Kunlun Mountain. Kunlun Mountain is majestic and steep, with deep valleys and steep slopes, and is known as the "natural danger in the south". Its importance was unparalleled during the War of Resistance Against Japan nearly 900 years later. At that time, the only fully mechanized army in China, and one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang army defeated the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese 5th Division, known as the "Steel Army", and achieved the "Kunlun Pass Victory". Although the Song Dynasty was different from the Anti-Japanese War, the location and function of the Kunlun Pass natural danger were no different!

Such a fortress made Di Qing scratch his head, and what made him even more helpless was the consequence of Chen Shu's rash attack last time. The place where Chen Shu was defeated was Jincheng, which was south of Kunlun Pass. In other words, the Song army had crossed Kunlun Pass before Di Qing arrived and directly threatened Nong Zhigao's lair! Will this arouse Nong Zhigao's alert?

That's why there was no movement and 10 days of food and grass. Not only the enemy, but also the subordinates didn't know what he was going to do. On the 15th, Di Qing suddenly ordered the entire army to set off, and the entire army was divided into three units, led by him, Sun Mian and Yu Jing. He set off early that day and arrived at Kunlun Pass at dusk. Di Qing issued a frequent order again: hold a banquet to celebrate the festival! At dawn the next day, the generals came to the tent to obey the orders!

The next day, General Di Qing's military flag was erected in front of the tent, and the generals of the army were lined up in a row and listened to the military orders quietly. However, there was no movement for a long time. Until a military academy rushed down from the pass and said to the generals: General, he led his front army to cross Kunlun Pass in the third update last night! Now I am waiting for you to have breakfast together in Guirenpu, Guannan!

Deceiving Nong Zhigao and getting rid of the civil servant who was in trouble, Di Qing held the victory firmly in his hands overnight. Nong Zhigao was destined to be defeated!

On the 17th, Guirenpu fought decisively! Each of Nong Zhigao's soldiers held a large shield, javelin, and were wearing crimson clothes. From a distance, they looked like a piece of flame. They were divided into three battle formations and took the initiative to attack the official army. Di Qing's army was still in front, middle and back three armies. He himself supervised the battle in the front army and blocked the two civil servants far behind. Sun Mian and Yu Jing stood on a high place. They clearly saw the two armies fighting, and the Song army could no longer hold on...

Sun Jie, the right general of the former army, was the vanguard of the entire army. At the beginning of the war, the two armies attacked and he was soon submerged in the sea of ​​people. His army began to divert. Some of them resisted stubbornly on the open land of Guirenpu, and some retreated to the high slopes on both sides, which was equivalent to withdrawing from the position! The front army was shaken, and the expressions of the two civil officials behind him changed drastically. It was obvious that another defeat was about to come. They began to despair. As former officials of the capital, it was no secret that there were many wealth in Kaifeng City. Even if reinforcements were sent, it would be difficult to be higher than this time. Could it be that the south of the Yangtze River really had another day?

On the contrary, Di Qing was very dull. Seeing that the troops were on the verge of collapse, he seemed to be indifferent. Maybe he dreamed of blowing the horns and camps, and the northwest border was outside the wind and snow, right? At that time, hundreds of thousands of people were on the battlefield, and many heroes were used to it. What is the small dispute in front of him!

Di Qing stood up, raised a white flag and waved it behind the formation. There was a secret hidden there: the thousands of cavalry brought from the northwest battlefield. It was only a few thousand people, but their role was the civil servants who posed for the formation, which was unimaginable to the other side. It was related to some dazzling and legendary magical names: the Tiger Ben of Han, the Xuan Armor of Tang!

These are two full cavalry troops. It cannot be said that the reputation of the Han and the Tang dynasties was defeated by them, but in those miraculous battles, they often created the most shocking chapter. The Hu Ben Army was a bit old. When the Tang Dynasty's Xuanjia cavalry was about to break through the opponent's formation more than once when Tian Khan was about to fight, they then fought back the same way! Not only did they disrupt the opponent's formation, but they fundamentally defeated the enemy's morale!

Li Shimin had only more than one thousand Xuan armored cavalry!

Then Di Qing has brought thousands of Fanluo cavalry in this battle! Can they also play the same role? On the decisive battle of Guirenpu that day, the Fanluo cavalry ignored the rebels entangled with the Song army's vanguard, but divided into two teams and directly rushed into the rear formation of Nong Zhigao! The speed like a wind was something that Nong Zhigao and other southern indigenous people could never dream of dreaming of! That was not the southwest ponies they were good at walking on mountain roads, but the grassland horses that competed with the Dangxiang people in the northwest frontier of the Song Dynasty! This is one of the reasons why Di Qing sneaked across Kunlun Pass at night. You cannot ask the war horses on the grassland to climb the hills quickly, just like Nong Zhigao could not cope with the fierce cavalry who stepped onto the flat battlefield at this time!

The cavalry of the Fanluo entered the rebels' rear squad, the left army went to the right and the right army went to the left, and exchanged positions in the entire battle formation, causing chaos in the Nong Zhigao team. Before the other party could react, they immediately did it again, just like Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army back and forth, interspersing and killing repeatedly until the Nong Zhigao army collapsed!

Guirenpu is the end of Nong Zhigao, and everything is over. The rebels fled towards Yongzhou, and the Song army chased them all the way. After 50 miles, they approached Yongzhou City. As of this, the rebels were beheaded 2,200 people and captured more than 500 people alive. The traitor military advisor Huang Shimi, Nong Zhigao's confidant Nong Jianzhong, Nong Zhizhong and other pseudo-official officials. Nong Zhigao was very lucky that he fled into Yongzhou City.

As night fell, outside Yongzhou City, Song Jun arrived. Di Qing always remembered his promise: to bring Nong Zhigao's head back to Kaifeng and offer it to the emperor. In his opinion, there would be a more difficult battle next. Yongzhou is the largest city in the southwest, with a high city and a vast pool. If the rebels fought to the death of the city and reaching the level of the King of Beizhou City, it would be a deadly nightmare than Kunlun Pass! We can't let the Fanluo cavalry fly over the city wall, right?

But Wu was worried. Just when Di Qing set up a besiege and was preparing to attack the toughest, the city of Yongzhou suddenly burst into the sky, and the whole city turned into a sea of ​​fire. Nong Zhigao committed suicide by burning the city! This was the first consensus of all the officials and soldiers. But Di Qing didn't think so. The most difficult thing about the barbarian rebellion was that they would not see people in their lives or corpses in their lives. If you win once, he would hide and would struggle again afterwards, and it would never end! You can't wait any longer! Di Qing ordered that he would attack the city at any cost. No matter who lives or die, Nong Zhigao must be captured!

Yongzhou City was captured that night, and the city was searched overnight. Three records were left in history books. 1. The surrendered people were exempted from death, and a total of 7,200 civilians were surrendered and released to their hometowns; 2. Those who resisted must die, a total of 5,341 people were killed; 3. The bodies wearing golden dragon robe were found.

The last article made all the Song army happy, no doubt! This corpse is Nong Zhigao! The rebel leader was shot dead, and his merits were perfect and impeccable. All Di Qing had to do was to write a memorial to report his victory. But he hesitantly said something very contrary to tradition: This may be a scam, and this corpse is not necessarily Nong Zhigao's?

This is a basin of cold water, which is really puzzling. Since ancient times, there has been a lot of water in military merits. Many things are well known to everyone, but they don’t say it out loud. Just like this corpse wearing a golden dragon robe, whether it is left by Nong Zhigao to confuse the official army or the official army casually find a corpse to cover it, the effect is the same: after work, the emperor will give the reward!
Chapter completed!