In June this year, when Wang Anshi asked Guo Kui to send troops again, he had a conversation with Zhao Xu.

Wang Anshi said: "At that time, Li Gande, Jiaozhi, was first established, and the provinces wanted to support each other. At that time, as long as you recruit 20,000 elite troops and choose five or six talented generals, you will definitely get Jiaozhi. If you expect that there will be something wrong today, you should do whatever you want."

Zhao Xu said that if King Xing of the previous dynasty wanted to be successful, he had to train troops first and then move.

Even if that was a good opportunity, it was still too late to train troops in the south, which even Zhuge Liang could not do it afterwards!

Wang Anshi said: "If you do things, you will be able to practice your own talent. If you don't do things, it will be very difficult to train troops. But you will teach you to sit, do, and shoot day and night, and you will not know what kind of morale you are when you encounter an enemy? If you do things, you will be able to achieve success. If you do things, you will be able to see your talents without talent. If you do things, you will also be able to bring your talents with them."

I can’t tell the talent in my daily training. Only by fighting can I know that the general can fight. Normal training may not work, but it must be practical.

But actual combat is important, isn’t training important in daily life? If Wang Shao had not trained archers in Qinzhou for so long, how could he have a powerful army in his hands and how to recover Xihe?

Twenty thousand soldiers destroyed Jiaozhi, which shows Wang Anshi's contempt for Jiaozhi.

It is precisely this kind of contempt that Guo Kui, who was leading his army from Tanzhou to set out to Guizhou, received two imperial edicts.

The first part is: Annan's move is only a complete speed. You can improve the country, make plans, make great suggestions, and quickly destroy it. You can respect and strengthen China and make a little sense of restraint.

I have given you 100,000 officers and soldiers and 200,000 civilians. Hurry up and destroy Xiao Jiaozhi, otherwise the Khitan will come to blackmail again.

Why did Zhao Xu hate the Khitan later? That is, the Khitan came to quarrel this time, which led to serious mistakes in the formulation of the entire strategy.

The second edict was to place prefectures and counties in accordance with the administration of the mainland on the day of Guo Kui's pacification of Jiaozhi.

In other words, Wang Anshi never thought that he could not take Jiaozhi from beginning to end.

And Liu Yi, even if he takes revenge on his own, he can't do it so blatantly.

Still Wang Anshi.

When Jiaozhi invaded, Wang Anshi was at a loss, so he issued an edict in the Secretariat to ask Liu Yi to conduct detailed investigations and dispose of the inspection envoys, and to strictly guard the inspection and guard against the war without any light.

The edict taught me to do this, and I couldn't save Yongzhou.

Everyone will make mistakes in judgment, just like Wang Ju thinks that Zhao Xu has become a little afraid. One is that there are more people migrating, and the other is that he is greedy for money.

In fact, these are not the same. What is important is that Wang Ju can control these more and more migrants. Once this happens, it means that Wang Ju controls a force that can harm the existence of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xu is not easy to say, otherwise Wang Ju can explain it.

Because of misjudgment, this will continue to be confused. But this issue doesn’t matter, but the important thing is that if a misjudgment occurs in such a major matter, it will be fatal.

Guo Kui was also stunned when he received these two warrants. He was originally going to the south, but because he was not very familiar with him, he was uneasy. At least he could find out the situation to use troops. But now the court asked him to go south urgently and quickly wipe out Jiaozhi.

Is there anything so easy to destroy? So Guo Kui reluctantly procrastinated in Simingzhou for more than 70 days. It was not until Yan Da forced the surrender of Liu Ji, the chief of Guangyuan Prefecture, that he led the army across the national border and set out towards Jiaozhi.

However, Guo Kui's rebellious mentality is a bit fatal. It would be better if you simply park the three armies in Guizhou. First, it is developed here with mature development, and the "miasma" is not that serious. In other words, there are very few things. Even if mosquitoes bite the officers and soldiers, they will not be infected with malignant bacteria. But he led the three armies to Simingzhou. As the Sino-Vietnam border line in later generations, the supply difficulties here will not be mentioned. The development is not mature and the development is not mature. This means that there are rotten accumulations everywhere, and mosquitoes will carry germs. It is autumn again, so before the army set off, news of malaria infection in the army was reported.

After receiving a report a few days ago, Zhao Xu personally criticized: When he traveled to Annan to the camp and the four generals in Yongzhou, he died of nearly 4,000 or 5,000 people in early September. This was because the generals and deputy generals were not restricted and ordered to eat things that the northerners were afraid of, which led to illness. He could be punished with urgent and strict measures, and he still held the responsibility of medical treatment.

Then the imperial physician was asked to cooperate with thirty kinds of malaria to treat malaria, and ordered the official Liang to lead him to Annan.

Falignant malaria, before artemisinin comes out, it can be said that it is a terminal illness, and no medicine is used for the imperial physician!

Tragedy has been planted.

Although the weather is getting less hot, how many pathogens are there among hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians?

However, Wang Ju was upset: "Your Majesty, it's hard to say last year. Now, I dare to guarantee that even if Your Majesty tear down the preliminary agreement made last year, the Liao Kingdom would not dare to send troops."

Zhao Xu was surprised.

"Jiazhi dares to do this, it is a major disaster. Liao Kingdom dares to blackmail, and it is also a major disaster. Last year, it was after the disaster, and people's lives are still very difficult. Even in the spring of this year, some people are starving to the road and selling their children and daughters, otherwise so many northern people would not have gone to Quanzhou to escape overseas. However, the autumn harvest ended and the situation gradually improved. Although our dynasty sent 300,000 people south, of which 200,000 were civilians, and the remaining 100,000 troops were only 100,000 troops. The main body of the army was still in the north, and Zhang Zhen was well trained on the border, so what's the fear? Furthermore, the treacherous ministers of the Liao Kingdom killed the queen and the political situation was turbulent. Moreover, this disaster was not only in the Yanyun area, but also in the Huanglong Mansion. Our dynasty was in trouble, and the Liao Kingdom was also in trouble. Let me ask, why dare to send troops to our court at this time?"

He learned some news from Zhang Shi.

Only then did Wang Ju realize that this was a rare and extraordinary La Niña disaster in a thousand years. Not only did the Song Dynasty start to the north from the southeast, but both the Xixia and the Liao Kingdom were seriously affected.

Therefore, Wang Ju's attitude towards reform has always been very complicated. Although many people starved to death and many people were frozen to death, in general, if Wang Anshi had no reform and the treasury did not have a large amount of savings, the consequences of this disaster would be more serious than anyone imagined.

Of course, the millions of stones of grain Wang Ju also got were also effective.

Besides, Wang Ju beat Xixia up violently. Although Xixia gradually recovered some vitality, it was far less than Xixia in another time and space.

That is, the situation in the northwest will be better than in history.

If it wasn't done well last year, the Liao Kingdom would really dare to send troops. But this year, after autumn, the crops were harvested together. Will the Liao Kingdom dare to send troops?

Another phenomenon can also be seen. Last year, the crops continued to be inadequate, and the imperial court taxes were imposed. Some people harvested them, but they began to flee. After paying them for seven or eight, they would not have a grain of food in their hands. So they went south one after another.

However, after this autumn, except for the more than 100,000 people stranded in Quanzhou, almost rarely came to Quanzhou, and there will be another next year, but that will surely be in the spring famine period, and the number is far less than this year.

He is so greedy for Yan Yun when he is so veterinary to the Liao Kingdom!

Wang Ju said again: "Your Majesty, I saw that the border agreement has not been decided for a long time, and I thought it was the court who intended to delay it. Who knew it was the court that was afraid of Liao."

Zhao Xu didn't care about the sarcasm in Wang Ju's words. His face turned pale.

If this is the case, it means that there have been serious mistakes in the decision-making with Wang Anshi, including the Yongzhou tragedy.

Of course, he hoped that Wang Ju had expected it was wrong.

Did Wang Ju’s prediction be wrong? You can see it in the next battle.

The Song Dynasty army went south, and Jiaozhi sent a warring elephant to resist the war.

This thing looks powerful, but it doesn't work. As early as Pan Mei, or even earlier in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it easily cracked the Elephant Soldiers.

The Song army first used the tiger cannon to put explosive bags. Not only was it loud, but there were also many iron nails, caltrops and other things in the explosive bags.

Then shoot with the divine arm bow.

Then he sent a suicide squad forward and slashed the elephant's nose with a knife.

As a result, the elephant group turned around and ran back and overthrew their own army.

The Song army easily ushered in a good start.

Then Guo Kui used Qu Zhen and other generals to attack Menzhou. The enemy generals Huang Jinman were defeated and surrendered with the leaders of each Xidong.

The Song army continued to move south and quickly approached the Fuliang River.

At this time, the Song army had already had a dispute. After Guo Kui arrived at the front line, Zhao En suggested that before the large troops behind arrived, they would send scouts to bring a lot of money to surrender the troops of Liangjiang (Fuliang River, Baiteng River). Even if they could not be bribed, they would at least be disinterested and suspicious of each other. Then when the army arrived later, they would be as powerful as they could.

Guo Kui didn't listen.

When the army arrived, Guo Kui was slowing down, Zhao Cheng proposed to divide the troops into three groups (there were also a navy, Hebin and Yang Congxian led the warships to attack the Fuliang River from Dongjing Port). The road did not move, but the army on the land was divided into two groups, one was the central army, which was the current route of advance, and another group was divided into one group, from Guangyuanzhou small road to attack Shenglong City. And unlike in history, because of the Battle of Qingzhou, many generals emerged, such as this battle not only brought Yan Da, Miao Lu, the son of Miao Su, the veteran general Hebin, Qu Zhen, Yao Lin, Yao Xiong's uncle and nephew, Zhong Yi, so there were many famous generals in the army who could fight.

Then, three groups marched together and Jiaozhi was unable to defend, so he quickly took Jiaozhi down.

However, Guo Kui arrived at the front line and looked at the vast dense forest. He was stunned, so he still did not agree.

It is not necessarily the right idea for Zhao Cheng, and Jiaozhi is not that easy to destroy. Let’s see that the Yuan Dynasty later attacked the royal capital, and in the end, it still withdrew its troops back.

Zhu Di is so powerful that he can rank among the top ten of the kings of all dynasties in China. He has indeed destroyed Jiaozhi, but once Zhu Di died, he could not control him later, so he abandoned Jiaozhi again.

In other words, the two commanders have stopped competing before the army has been launched.

The even more deadly Song Dynasty sent envoys to Chameng and Zhenla to ask them to help pacify Jiaozhi, and the two countries agreed. However, after the army was launched, no troops from the two countries were seen.

It was in this context that the army arrived at the banks of the Fuliang River.

More than 400 warships were moored on the south bank of the Fuliang River, which made the Song army unable to help but unable to fight. So Guo Kui prepared to build a floating bridge in the river to advance. However, some generals could not wait and built some rafts from the north bank first and took the lead in crossing the river. As a result, because of the small force, they were captured and killed by the Jiaozhi army one by one.

At the same time, Miao Lu led an army, guided by Jiaozhi surrendering General Huang Jinman, and prepared to take a detour from Ruyuedu to cross the Fuliang River, where it was sixty miles away from the main battlefield. The Jiaozhi army gathered here together, and the troops in other places were empty, so they used the strange army to break through the capital of Jiaozhi. However, seeing the fate of the soldiers crossing the river, Guo Kui was afraid that Miao Lu's strange army would repeat the same mistake, so he ordered them to be withdrawn.

Indeed, Guo Kui was a small fight, but he didn't have the ability to lead an army like this.

There was no other way, Yan Da stood up to offer advice, and there were only two strategies, one was to show the enemy to be weak. These Jiaozhi people were very proud and were easily deceived.

Second, he sent scouts to threaten that the Hebin naval army was blocked at the port of Dongliangjing. Everyone pretended not to know, but mistakenly thought that the Jiaozhi navy, who was going up the river, was regarded as the Song Dynasty naval army.

The Song army died of countless military and civilians due to malaria. Jiaozhi knew about this. After hearing these two news, he thought it was a chance to win. One was that the Song army was declining and morale was depressed. No matter how many troops were, it would not work. The other was that the Jiaozhi navy was misjudged as the Song Dynasty naval army, so this navy could launch a surprising attack on the Song army.

Jiaozhi was trapped and tens of thousands of troops rushed north. In fact, Jiaozhi was difficult to deal with. This terrain and the so-called malaria were abandoned. They abandoned these two favorable factors and went to the front battlefield. That was almost a matter of seeking death.

In particular, the Song army brought a large number of cavalry and infantry attacked each other, and tens of thousands of Jiaozhi troops were almost wiped out.

How big can Jiaozhi be, how strong can it be, and how many troops can it have?

In the battle, Jiaozhi's family's foundation was almost destroyed. Li Gande immediately submitted a letter and sent envoys to the military gate to surrender. He presented the five prefectures of Sumaozhou, Silang, Menzhou, Liangzhou and Guangyuanzhou to the Song Dynasty, and still returned to the children of the people who were plundered.

He also said: "I beg me to recall Xuanfu and recruit soldiers and horses to stop scattering. I hope to continue to pay tribute and thank you for your gratitude, so I will never dare to invade the province."

I am just a child. I am ignorant. Now I admit my mistake. Please spare me.

This is definitely not possible. At least you have to cross the river south, completely destroy the Li Dynasty, and then take the child to Kaifeng, and then bet the child to be finished.

However, most generals said that the three armies had used up all their food and salary. Since they went to the expedition, a total of 100,000 people had officially joined the army and 200,000 men had died of more than half of them because of the heat and the miasma. Those who were not dying were also sick and overwhelmed.

This is Guo Kui's mistake. He hesitated in Siming Prefecture for more than two months, and the three armies stayed in Siming Prefecture for more than two months. Not to mention that many military and civilians were infected with malaria, the food and grass had to be moved from Taiping Village to Siming Prefecture step by step, which would cause a lot of waste. If the three armies were parked in Guizhou first, would there be so many soldiers infected with malaria? Even if there were, it would be better. Moreover, the food and grass should be transported by water, and the consumption would be less.

Not only this problem, now that the three armies are together, you are infecting me, I am infecting you, and if you continue to stay, I am afraid that even these generals will be caught. Is more than half of the people dead, aren’t afraid?

Now that Jiaozhi has surrendered, he has achieved his goal. It is time to withdraw his troops, so hurry up and go back.

Tao Bi, the new magistrate of Yongzhou, was anxious and said, "Mr. Guo, you have to be valued by Your Majesty. How can Your Majesty expect you? Now that the great effort is about to be completed, will it fail?"

This is hard to say. If Li Gande and his ministers fled into the mountains and forests, they would still not be able to catch Li Gande. However, if that could destroy Shenglong City, at least Jiaozhi would be more honest in the future.

Listening to everyone's controversy, Guo Kui said: "I cannot overthrow the thief's nest, and I will captivate the virtues of Gan to repay the court. God is willing to live more than 100,000 people in one body."

Then he accepted Li Gande's surrender and sent it to the capital. But Tao Bi still insisted, saying: "The people of the three states have slaughtered 100,000 people who died without any boundaries. Now, there are 100,000 soldiers and horses. The thief is in his hand and will not take it. In order to fulfill the thief's will, the country's power is not smooth, the injustice of the three states will be lost, and the hearts of the side will be disheartened, and there is something to be painful and no one can congratulate."

Please note that this time is around New Year's Day, and there are still two months before the spring miasma comes.

Maybe Guo Kui felt a headache when he saw this complex terrain that was covered with thick shade, and the morale of the three armies was not high, so he made this decision.

After this battle, Chameng gradually looked down on the Song army and sent envoys. It turned out that the so-called giant was just a paper tiger. And in another time and space, Jiaozhi Book recorded this battle, which is of course said to be a victory.

If you can compare it with one person, that is Pan Mei.

Jiaozhi gave northerners a headache, and Lingnan also gave northerners a headache at this time, but how did Pan Mei destroy the Southern Han Dynasty?

Moreover, Guo Kui did something, Tao Bi insisted, and some generals still recognized Tao Bi's statement. Anyway, so many people died, why did they give up halfway? Guan Jing Tao Bi was a civil official, but invincible in the Song Dynasty, and Guo Kui could not distinguish it.

So Guo Kui was angry and led the central army to retreat at night. There was no military order before retreating. The other troops did not know what had happened, which led to "the trouble of the crowd and the reign of each other."
Chapter completed!