In the battle of Jinsha River, the Gaojiao Allied Forces were severely weakened. Let alone counterattack, their defense was very difficult.
If Wu Jie hadn't been worried about Li Qi's big plan, he would have given them a chance to breathe and would have definitely annihilated them in one fell swoop. However, he did not choose to do this and deliberately led Duan Zhengyan to capture Nongdong Mansion first. Nongdong Mansion had no defense at all.
, even before the battle, the guard general of Nongdong Mansion led all the soldiers out of the city to surrender.
However, on the day when the city of Nongdongfu was defeated, the Song Dynasty suddenly announced its participation in the war. On the same day, Zhe Yanzhi raided Shicheng County in the north of Dali. On the evening of the next day, he defeated Shicheng County and released the news that the Song Dynasty Shiwanxi
The army has arrived and is preparing to encircle Shanchan Mansion with the Duan family.
Regarding the Song Dynasty's participation in the war, Wu Jie naturally told Duan Zhengyan in advance, but he told Duan Zhengyan that the purpose of the Song Dynasty's participation in the war at this time was not to cause the loss of life and force the Gao family to leave the city and surrender.
Duan Zhengyan was a very upright emperor, and he didn't want to raise a sword against his own people anymore, so he agreed.
After losing Shicheng County, Nongdong Mansion, and Shanchan Mansion, there is no danger to defend them.
The entire Gao family group was completely panicked. He was not even qualified to question the Song Dynasty, because the Duan family was the orthodox and the Song Dynasty sent troops to help. This was a just act, and it was also invited by Duan Zhengyan. Why not?
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They all know that once Duan Zhengyan breaks through the Shanchan Mansion, they will definitely not be able to tolerate them. After all, they have put Duan Zhengyan under house arrest and humiliated him in many ways. If they fall into Duan Zhengyan's hands, they will not be able to tolerate them.
Then this little fate has been sealed.
escape!
Seeing that the Shanchan Mansion was in danger, the Gao Group unanimously decided to abscond, but it seemed that they did not have much choice but to flee to Jiaozhi.
Gao Mingshun is also a Prime Minister after all, and he knows human nature very well. Now that Jiaozhi cannot protect itself, how can he be allowed to be accepted by them? He can only rely on money and people. He only has 20,000 soldiers left. But he has money, Dali
All the treasury was in his hands, so after he learned that Jinshahe was defeated, he frantically abandoned the city with all his money and troops.
This is what Wu Jie wants to see the most. You can take them all away, which is exactly what I want. Because in his heart, Jiaozhi is already in the pocket of the Song Dynasty. If this money is left in Shanchan Mansion, once the city is destroyed
, it should belong to Duan Zhengyan. But if Gao Mingshun took all the money to Jiaozhi, then after the Song army destroyed Jiaozhi, the money would have to be calculated separately. Based on Li Qi's character, not to mention taking all the money.
, at least 70% to 80% must be exploited and returned.
When Duan Zhengyan led his army to Shanchan Mansion, the city gates were wide open, and a group of his former "courtiers" knelt in front of him and cried bitterly. They begged for mercy in various euphemistic ways, saying that it was the Gao family who forced them to do this in the first place.
It was not their original intention. In short, they just hoped that Duan Zhengyan could ignore the past grievances and spare their lives.
After all, Duan Zhengyan was an emperor who hoped to govern the world with benevolence. Seeing these ministers behave like this, he couldn't help but forgive them and issued an order to let the soldiers enter the city quietly and not to disturb the people in the city.
Wu Jie stood aside and felt it was funny. The money is gone, and you still have the mood to worry about this. If he hadn't done it intentionally, he would have led his troops to pursue it at this time.
After entering the city, Duan Zhengyan learned that the Gao family had taken away the people and even the treasury. He shouted loudly and almost fainted.
The country of Dali suffered heavy losses due to this civil war. If even the treasury was gone, how could the country continue to be governed? A clever woman could not make a meal without rice, so she hurriedly ordered people to chase the Gao family.
At this time, Duan Zhengyan suddenly became shrewd. He thought that this was related to the Dali treasury. If Wu Jie was asked to lead people to pursue it, who knows whether they would be greedy and could not let Wu Jie's people go, so he
He asked his eldest son Duan Zhengxing to lead 35,000 troops and horses to pursue him.
This period of Zhengxing has a great background, and he is familiar to later generations, not because he is the future king of Dali, but because he is actually the real person of the Yidian Master in Grandpa Jin's works.
Duan Zhengxing was only in his twenties now. When he was in high spirits, he received his father's call and immediately led his troops to pursue him.
Wu Jie's heart was like a mirror, and he said nothing. Let whoever you want go, I won't wade into this muddy water anymore. He didn't worry at all that Duan Zhengxing could recover those properties, because the Gao family was not only the only
There were 20,000 soldiers and horses, as well as 20,000 reinforcements from Jiaozhi who arrived later. Duan Zhengxing was young, energetic and lacked experience. This trip would definitely be in vain.
As expected, Duan Zhengxing led his troops in pursuit for four days and finally caught up with Gao and his companions near Xiushan County. However, they were defeated by an ambush set up by the Gaojiao Allied Forces. Fortunately, Gao was in a hurry to escape and was afraid that there would be pursuers behind them.
, did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, otherwise Duan Zhengxing's more than 30,000 troops would have been killed or wounded more than half.
Duan Zhengxing returned in defeat, and Duan Zhengyan looked very ugly. He originally thought that the opponent was a defeated general, so he went over to scare him. He would have abandoned his property and ran away, but he didn't know that Duan Zhengxing actually came back after a big defeat. This made Duan Zheng
Yan was very angry, and he knew he was wrong, so he could only plead with Wu Jie to let him lead his troops to pursue him.
Originally this matter was delayed by Wu Jie, but Duan Zhengyan didn't know that, and now he came to ask Wu Jie, and he felt quite sorry. He thought that if he was trustworthy in employing people, he would let Wu Jie go the first time and say
Maybe the property has been recovered, but now he comes to beg Wu Jie again. This is extremely unkind.
Wu Jie saw this and felt very happy, so he said: "Du Tong, the enemy has already run far away. If we pursue him, we will definitely not be able to catch up."
Duan Zhengyan said anxiously: "What should we do?"
Wu Jie hesitated for a moment and said: "There is only one way now."
"General, tell me quickly."
"Declare war on Cochin and march to Cochin."
"ah?"
Duan Zhengyan was slightly startled. He was actually not willing to continue fighting. Most of Dali was now in a state of paralysis. He hoped to rectify the internal situation as soon as possible instead of continuing to fight externally.
Wu Jie didn't know what Duan Zhengyan was thinking, so he said, "Du Tong, there is something I don't know whether to say or not."
"General, just say it's okay."
"Now the fate of Dali has been linked to Jiaozhi. If Jiaozhi is destroyed, Duan's Dali will prosper. If Jiaozhi is not destroyed, Duan's Dali will perish."
This is extremely serious. Duan Zhengyan said in shock: "Why did the general say this?"
Wu Jie said: "There are three reasons for the capital to send troops. First, the Gao family has taken all the Dali treasury to Jiaozhi. If Jiaozhi survives, then the money will definitely belong to Jiaozhi. For the capital, but
A hundred harms and no benefit.
Secondly, if Jiaozhi successfully defends Shenglong Mansion, after our Song army retreats, Jiaozhi will definitely help the Gao family to come back and seize power, because the generals are all in favor of our Song Dynasty, and Dali and Jiaozhi are neighbors, so Jiaozhi naturally hopes that Gao will come back and seize power.
The family was able to recapture Dali.
Thirdly, our privy envoy has already said that if the capital is willing to march into Jiaozhi with his troops, once Jiaozhi is destroyed, he is willing to give up part of the land and return it to the capital for management."
Duan Zhengyan asked suspiciously: "General, do you really mean what you said?"
Wu Jie said: "I am just a small general in the Song Dynasty. How dare I make up nonsense? If the commander-in-chief doesn't believe it, he can send someone to ask the privy envoy. But the most important thing now is to march into Jiaozhi as soon as possible. I don't believe the commander-in-chief either.
You would like to continue to be neighbors with a shameless country like Jiaozhi. The two sides have already broken their skins. It can be said that whether he dies or you die."
This Wu Jie really wasn't fooling Duan Zhengyan. Li Qi really valued Duan Zhengyan's abilities and hoped that he could use his talents to take care of this territory that would belong to the Song Dynasty sooner or later.
Duan Zhengyan was silent and thought to himself. What he said makes sense. If the Gao family is immortal, how can I sleep well?
That night, he summoned a group of cronies to discuss the matter.
Of course those cronies encouraged Duan Zhengyan to send troops to Jiaozhi. Why did they come to help you Duan Zhengyan? It was just for the glory and wealth. All the money was taken away by the Gao family. They fought for a long time and got nothing.
Come on, what does this mean?
This is human nature.
Duan Zhengyan saw that all his cronies unanimously wanted to send troops to Cochin, so he decided to send troops to Cochin. On the second day, he formally declared war on Cochin on the grounds that Cochin sent troops to support the Gao family, and personally marched his army from the west of Cochin along the Fuliang River to Thang Long Palace.
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This Gao family is considered to have enough time. He wanted to take refuge in Jiaozhi, but Jiaozhi also had too much to take care of. As soon as he entered Jiaozhi, he heard that the Song army was plundering north of the Fuliang River. The Jiaozhi army could not find its way north.
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In fact, we can't say that we can't find Bei, we can't find anyone at all.
After Yue Fei's army conquered Jueli Pass, they successively conquered Nasumao, Silang, Liangzhou and other places. In fact, Jiaozhi didn't have many cities at all, and they were basically copycat strongholds. So Yue Fei and the others went all the way south, almost in
We didn't encounter any obstacles, and the only small battles we fought were with some local bandits.
Yue Fei is a very upright man. Unfortunately, he followed a bad boss and got into some bad habits. He became a little greedy for money. The key was the instigation of Niu Gao. This guy told Yue Fei,
Although a sparrow is small, it is still a piece of meat. Although these robbers are nothing to worry about, these robbers are wealthy owners. Why don't we hunt rabbits and get rid of them too, so that the soldiers can make some extra money or something?
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Yue Fei thought this was not bad. But he was in a hurry, so these unscrupulous guys racked their brains and finally decided to send some small teams to attack the bandits during their rest at night.
Because they had already reached the hinterland of Cochin, the environment and climate were getting worse, and most of these bandits lived in the mountains. Therefore, Yue Fei asked Luo Long to lead his troops to loot the bandits, train them casually, and let them integrate into the Forbidden Army.
Come.
Luo Long and the others were originally bandits. They understood the psychology of bandits very well, and they were equipped with the most advanced firearms of the Song Dynasty. How could those bandits be their opponents? They were sure to hit each other. Niu Gao was really right. These bandits
He was really rich, and he got a lot of money and food back.
After tasting the sweetness, Yue Fei and the others implemented this strategic policy more resolutely. They rushed during the day to see if there were any local tycoons. If there were any, they would directly kill people and rob goods. At night, they would send a small team to fight against the robbers.
Anyway, Jiaozhi used the trick of clearing the field. After all, these scattered troops were no match for Yue Fei's army. If they went up to fight, they would just die. So they withdrew all the troops north of the Furiang River and prepared to defend to the death.
Furiang River.
Since there are no enemies to fight, you have to have some fun by yourself. From now on, this will be the territory of the Song Dynasty. These bandits will be eliminated sooner or later, so why not take them out by the way?
Yue Fei's army was not slow on its journey, and the journey was full of fun and achievements. They were all military generals. Sometimes, several big bosses would gather together to discuss countermeasures for a group of bandits, and sometimes they would quarrel over it.
, if Li Qi saw this, he would definitely think that they were studying some big policy.
While on the road, tribal soldiers from Yizhou, Qinzhou, and Guangyuanzhou gradually integrated into the Forbidden Army.
Because the country of Jiaozhi is very small and has few palms, the journey from Guangyuan to Thanglong is not as far as Zhendingfu to Damingfu. When the Jin soldiers went south, it only took more than a month. However, the road to Jiaozhi is a mountainous road with 18 bends.
, and the Jin soldiers were mainly cavalry, and their speed was much faster than that of the Song army.
But it only took Yue Fei more than a month to arrive at the north bank of the Furiang River. If the Furiang River did not exist, it would actually be considered an attack on the city, because the north bank of the Furiang River is only thirty miles away from Shenglong Palace.
Just when Yue Fei's army was about to reach the Furiang River, Li Qi, who had been wiping their butts all the way, also caught up and met up with Yue Fei and the others. (To be continued...)