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"Young Bao, is this a bit cumbersome?" asked Eunuch Huang.

In the evening, five thousand cavalry began to camp, and they were regular camps. Many soldiers cut down trees and began to build walls. Because there were still horses, the walls were relatively long. After nearly an hour of busyness, the camp was built.

So Eunuch Huang thought it was a tedious thing, but he just stayed for one night and set off tomorrow. Why do he mobilize such a group of troops?

"The Huang Zhongshi is not complicated, and he must make the soldiers develop habits. At the same time, he cannot underestimate any enemy. It is often the time when everyone is most willing. Just like in Qingzhou, I have repeatedly used the care of the Xixia people and launched attacks again and again. In the spring, I used my troops to Jiaozhi, and because of my attention, Jiaozhi was not able to succeed in harassing the army..."

There are some other reasons.

Yan Da also agreed: "This is the biggest difference between Shaobao and others using troops. It is this kind of caution that you will be invincible before the battle."

Nothing else has been said.

But he was thinking in his heart, if Guo Kui was also so careful, why would so many military and civilians die?

Wang Ju winked and took Yan Da to the side and asked, "General Yan, what do you seem to say on the horse's back during the day?"

"This is my first time to come to the west of Guangnan West Road." This is also a fact. Yan Da followed Guo Kui south and then went south. Wang Ju asked to transfer back to Guangnan, and then went overseas to train troops. This year, there were a series of battles, including taking local soldiers to fight "powerful bullies", and assisting Wang Ju in presiding over the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi. The most western part of the trip was Hengshanzhai.

Yan Da said again: "I didn't expect this to be so desolate, so there..."

"There was also desolate there, but the late Tang Dynasty was backward. Nanzhao invaded Bashu and plundered countless Han people from Bashu. It was a disaster for Bashu at that time, but now because of these Han people, the civilization in Dali immediately developed highly."

Originally, Yan Da had a very vague word about civilization, but he could not get over the sea and his understanding became profound.

"So most areas of Dali are better than this section. I know what you are worried about. It will be more difficult to deal with it in the future."

"That's right," Yan Da said. Wang Ju valued him very much, and he did not regard Wang Ju as an outsider. He directly admitted it.

This is also the mainstream thought of the Song Dynasty.

Just like in history, the Jiaozhi Sect instigated the people of several states in the south, and the people of several states in the south were not subject to the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty. What did the Song Dynasty take? Finally, the ministers reported that the court could not benefit. In order to save trouble and have peace on the border, they returned the five states to Jiaozhi. The barbarians in Qiyuan Prefecture were panicked and firmly opposed the jurisdiction of Jiaozhi. But when the Song Dynasty controlled you, they didn't even let you pay taxes, and you knew what was good. However, more than nine hundred years later, there were still some people mourning. Nong Zhigao was really a righteous uprising? Forget the officers and soldiers killed by Nong Zhigao, but what happened to those innocent people?

As well as the central and eastern Guizhou, the southern part was controlled by the Luo family. The eastern part was controlled by the Tian family, and they were successively convinced by the Song Dynasty and also belonged to the restricted areas of the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty's attitude was still the same. It doesn't matter whether it is sincere or not, as long as it does not invade the people in the areas controlled by the Song Dynasty.

If such a detention is done, and sending a large army to convince them, there is no meaning at all.

If it is direct management, how to manage it? Maybe from now on, the south will be in trouble.

Wang Juya burst into laughter: "So it's this... General Yan, you're over-concerned. Since I have this idea, there will be a way. And this battle will allow you to see the truth."

What does this battle have to do with Dali?

Yan Da expressed doubts.

The battle came soon, and the infantry behind had to slow down for two or three days, but the cavalry quickly arrived at the battlefield on the third morning.

Wang Ju stood on the top of the mountain in the distance and looked west with a telescope.

Hu Guanglin and the officers and soldiers were trapped on a lonely peak. According to the information sent, there was a small spring on the peak that could barely maintain drinking water. Before the barbarian army arrived, a line of defense was set up in time at the foot of the peak. Therefore, the barbarians attacked for more than ten days and did not take them down.

At this time, looking into the telescope, there were about a thousand to nearly ten thousand barbarian soldiers siege under the peak. There was a large wooden statue behind the barbarian soldiers, and I don’t know what kind of ghosts and gods it was. The officers and soldiers in Yongzhou taught so many times, and some remote villages had bad faith, so don’t talk about this. Wang Ju just glanced at the soldiers and continued to look at the soldiers.

Sure enough, the endorsement of the rumor is groundless or catching the wind and shadow.

Only when it is in its hole can it have wind, and only when it is in its place can it "catch shadows".

Many barbarians do wear two knives. Does wearing two knives mean bravery?

I read Romance in my previous life, saying what the two guns are like.

In fact, the two-gun generals came from the battlefield, such as cavalry, the Tang Dynasty used spears, and the Song Dynasty used long-handled big swords. Because they had to carry the reins of the horse smoothly, Wang Ju changed it and turned into a Mongolian sword-shaped arc sabre.

The infantry also made Wang Ju change it, either crossbow soldiers, swords, or other weapons, but the weapons that are rare in double swords and double guns are not allowed to be used, but instead they have a new type of arc-shaped knife in one hand and a vine shield. It can not only block arrows, but also copy the opponent's weapons.

Therefore, this double sword made Wang Ju snort coldly and skip it.

Looking at their equipment, they almost didn't even have armor, so even though they used signs to block the front when attacking the mountain, casualties continued to occur.

Equipment can also be ignored.

Looking at people, there is a saying that Ziqi Man may be an alien race. He entered Dali from the Bagan Kingdom and then fell into the self-destruction. Therefore, the customs are different from other Wumans (the various barbarian tribes located in the east of Dali). They are pure and have a slightly taller race.

Wang Ju looked at it with a telescope and did not feel that these barbarians were taller than Wu Man, and their appearance was not very different. It might be because of the love of jie and the wildness that caused the people to illusion and rumor. But if you don’t love jie, you are indeed prone to various diseases in this wet and mountainous area. In addition, there are rumors that these barbarians do not learn Chinese. Now many people in Dali can speak Chinese and know Chinese characters. But Wang Ju probably was deliberately pretending to behave. We said it in a barbarian language. Are you Chinese afraid? But even if you don’t pretend, Wang Ju also has a way to let them speak Chinese!

Keep looking at the formation, the formation is very scattered, or there is no formation at all, it is a chaotic ball.

He was watching, and Yan Da and Qu Zhen were watching.

For this telescope, Wang Ju deliberately sent a boat to Dashi to customize it. He made more than 3,000 pairs of telescopes, half of which were donated to the court for military purposes, and half of which were left at sea for easy navigation.

Therefore, almost all the chief generals in the army have this thing now.

Yan Da said: "Hu Guanglin did a good job this time."

He refers to the location where Hu Guanglin defended. It is located in a Gushan Mountain. It is a meadow below. It is flat and wide, but there is a small river above it. The valley is a little deeper. But it is still nearly three miles away from the main battlefield, so it is a good place for cavalry to gallop.

In fact, this is Wang Ju's intentional explanation.

Even if you don’t have any idea about Dali, these two paths are very important. There are nine white-clothed paths and special-melting paths in the south, but the harm is not great. The main reason is that some of the mantras on the Ziqi path are blind, poor and ruthless, which is quite troublesome.

So Wang Ju made some explanations early, including the choice of these places to defend.

He didn't tell the inside story, but just said one sentence: "Put it two sides."

There is no need to form a formation to deal with this group of mobs, just strangle it.

The group went down the mountain, and then Yan Qu and the others divided the cavalry into two parts and rushed over.

It was just an impact, and there was no barbarian who was afraid of death and ran away one by one.

However, here is a meadow with sparse trees and beans planted with slashes and fire. Can people run over horses here?

When Wang Ju saw this, he asked the messenger to wave his flag.

So Yan Qu and his two men led their troops to turn over and rush to kill, and shouted loudly, surrendering and not killing. They shouted in Chinese. Then Wang Ju was happy, saying that they would surrender and not killing in Chinese. There was a large area behind them. Didn’t they say that they could not speak Chinese?

But it is indeed a very backward and closed area here.

Now let alone most of the barbarians in western Guangnan have become honest. Even west of Hengshanzhai, Nandanzhou heard Wang Ju rectifying the Neizhi like a thunderbolt, and sent envoys to pay their respects. Why did a group of people wearing double swords dare to attack the officers and soldiers? Is it invincible to use double swords?

However, although Wang Ju took a heavy blow, he was not too cruel.

There are also some barbarians who are running away. You are welcome and chased after them one by one and killed them. As long as they are lying on the ground and surrender, they will not be killed.

Wang Ju and Eunuch Huang rode over, and a barbarian in gorgeous clothes lay on the ground and said, "Zhai Yi (the barbarian language in the western part of Guangxi during the Song Dynasty, servants. The meaning of a small people) paid a visit to the Lord of Dagou (the master of gou, official, Dagou master, and great official)."

Wang Ju raised his head with a straight sword and said, "Speak Chinese, don't speak barbarian language, otherwise I will kill you immediately."

"Hanjian pays homage to the Lord of Dagou."

"Chinese!" Wang Ju pulled out the sword from the scabbard.

"A little one pays homage to the Lord of Dagou."

Wang Juwu quickly stepped on and said, "General Hu, take them down to interrogate them one by one, identify the leaders of each village, and the soldiers of each village were also identified and detained separately."

"Here." Hu Guanglin responded and began the interrogation.

Wang Ju asked Hu Guanglin's soldiers to camp with his servants, and then divided the cavalry into several teams to inquire about the terrain and roads of these villages.

"It's over so soon?" Eunuch Huang said in surprise.

"Huang Zhongzeng, what's going on? General Hu lured them to this terrain. What would have happened if it weren't for this terrain, but placed in the surrounding mountains and forests?"

"The soldiers are inconsistent?"

"That's what it means."

In the evening, various cavalry teams came back one after another. Wang Ju did not take action and had to wait for the thousands of infantry behind to come. If he wanted to attack the village, he could not use cavalry.

But the next day, they started to take these servants and soldiers to create some simple siege equipment.

Three days later, Yao Xiong arrived with his soldiers and infantry.

Wang Ju asked the three armies to escort these prisoners of war, forcibly acted as guides and "collision men". He attacked one by one. After the attack, he immediately executed all the powerful men in each village. Then he did the same thing as before, and distributed the powerful people of the village equally together. At most, some valuable things were left, but he also distributed them to the soldiers of the three armies as a reward. No matter how short of money, he would not lack the money of these poor local rich men of the barbarian tribe.

Yan Da asked suspiciously: "Young Bao, do you want to manage this area?"

"Governance? I don't want to manage the caves west of Hengshan Village, let alone here?" Wang Ju smiled and said, "I just plan to plant some seeds."

But Wang Ju still sighed secretly in his heart.

Is it really impossible to govern? How did the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties govern? Aren’t these three dynasties the same ancient?

The main reason was that the Song Dynasty system was constrained, and Wang Ju dared not really manage this place. Of course, there was no problem with restraint.

Wang Ju asked again: "General Yan, what do you see through this battle?" (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!