Xiao Ding and Song Yinzi led the army to the southern front to support Jishui County. As soon as he arrived outside Jishui County, he won the first battle and killed the troops led by Song Yinbei, the son of the king of Jiaozhou. The 50,000-strong army lost more than 40,000 at once.

After Xiao Ding got the news of the first victory, he was very happy, led the army, made noise with gongs and drums, and stationed in Jishui County.

The commander of the garrison in Jishui County was Lu Changping, the commander of the Zhongzhou soldiers and horses, and he personally led his troops out of the city to greet him. He was greeted by the magistrate of Jishui County, Chang County, and the leaders of Jishui County, Dutong Mengdutong and other officials in the county.

Everyone happily and lively.

After entering the palace hall, Song Yinzi was given the main seat, and Xiao Ding sat in the seat next to King Mu. The next is accompanied by Lu Changping and Chang County Ling and others. The other generals also sat down in turn.

Not long after everyone sat down, Han Qi, Han Qi, Yang Yueling and others also cleaned up the battlefield and entered Jishui County.

Several generals walked into the county hall in a majestic and majestic manner, and the other generals all applauded for them involuntarily.

They were the heroes of victory, the heroes of today's great victory, and the other generals all praised them from the bottom of their hearts.

Several people came to Song Yinzi, bent down to salute, and returned to the process of this great victory. and report on the amount of loot captured.

In this battle, more than 10,000 weapons such as knives and spears were captured; more than 10,000 pieces of strong bows and crossbows; arrows, more than 70,000; more than 8,000 pieces of military supplies such as tents, flags, war drums, pots and pans; Iron armor, more than 8,000 pieces.

All items have been brought into the city. Waiting for the manager to assign.

Song Yinzi was just about to say that all the loot would be collected and put into the warehouse, but Xiao Ding next to him suddenly opened his mouth, and he said: "King Mu, slow down!" The main reason why our army was able to achieve this great victory this time was that our army's forbidden army was equipped with a powerful killing weapon such as a beaded crossbow. As soon as he rushed over, he caught the enemy by surprise. Therefore, the enemy did not dare to fight to the death with our army, so they had to flee, and they were intercepted and killed by our army halfway, and they were like frightened birds, and they only thought about fleeing. Therefore, I believe that the key to this victory is that the Lianzhu crossbow inflicted heavy losses on the enemy army from the beginning, causing their morale to collapse, so that they won this great victory.

"Therefore, I suggest that all the iron weapons we have captured this time should be melted down in the arsenal in the city, and then a large number of beaded crossbows should be built to equip our army to enhance the combat power of our army."

Xiao Ding's idea was used when he was fighting in Yongzhou, and it was tried and tested repeatedly. That's why he did it again this time.

The king of Jiaozhou has many soldiers and few of his own soldiers, so Xiao Ding naturally wants to strengthen his own weapons and equipment.

It's a pity that although gunpowder has been available in this era, it has not yet been widely used on the battlefield. At present, the application of gunpowder in the army is mainly used to launch letter cannons and rockets.

Xiao Ding sometimes thinks that if he can build artillery, it will completely change the pattern of warfare in the era of cold weapons.

It's a pity that Xiao Ding didn't even graduate from high school before he crossed over, let alone an engineering student at a university, so naturally he didn't know how to make artillery.

Moreover, the raw materials of gunpowder in this era were very rare. Even if artillery is made, there are not enough raw materials to make gunpowder in large quantities.

However, since Xiao Ding had the idea of making artillery, he naturally thought of the Shenhuo Hall of the Jianghu sect in Zhongzhou City, in fact, the people of Shenhuo Hall are still more advanced in the application of gunpowder than in the army, and they have made thunderbolts, which are similar to grenades in later generations, but they are not as powerful as grenades in later generations.

If this kind of thunderbolt can be widely used in the army, it will also have the effect of changing the tide of war.

It's just a pity, this kind of thunderbolt is also very rare, even if it is the Divine Fire Hall, not everyone can use it.

As for how to use the tens of thousands of troops on his side to defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops of the King of Jiaozhou, Xiao Ding racked his brains and thought of various methods, feeling that at present, only a large number of Lianzhu crossbows can be easily done, and the other methods are too illusory.

Song Yinzi listened to Xiao Ding's suggestion, and did not show anything unusual, he did not see the scene of the war in person today, but only heard the shouting and killing sound in the distance, and then received the news of the victory in the first battle, naturally he couldn't experience the tension and excitement on the battlefield, and he couldn't realize how powerful the Lianzhu crossbow was, since it was Xiao Ding who proposed it, he would naturally agree. He knew that what Xiao Ding proposed must have Xiao Ding's reasoning.

So, he ordered, Chang County Commander immediately sent someone to arrange this matter, and Xiao Ding instructed Chang County Commander to bring all the blacksmiths in the city together in a hurry, and work overtime to build Lianzhu Crossbow, and at the same time, he also handed over the drawings of Lianzhu Crossbow to Chang County Order. And told him to be careful and not to spread the word.

After the Han brothers, Yang Yueling and others sat down, everyone began to discuss how to fight against the king of Jiaozhou.

According to Lu Changping, at present, Song Yinbei's team should have retreated to Qianling County in the south of Zhongzhou. Qianling County is located under the Da Yu Ridge in the Nanling Mountains, and the south side of the county seat is the Nanling Mountains that run through the east and west in the south of the Great Song Dynasty, and the boundary of Jiaozhou is across the Nanling.

Xiao Ding had also heard of Nanling before crossing, and he knew that there was a large mountain range called Nanling in southern China, which stretched from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the west to Ganzhou, Jiangxi in the east. It includes five huge mountain ranges: Yuecheng Ridge, Du Pang Ridge, Mengzhu Ridge, Qitian Ridge, and Dayu Ridge. The easternmost of them, Da Yu Ling, is not too far from the Wuyi Mountain Range in Fujian.

The south of Nanling, also known as the Lingnan region in history, Su Shi's poem "300 lychees a day, do not hesitate to be a Lingnan person." "That's the area.

However, the Great Song Kingdom that Xiao Ding crossed, the regional division is very different from the administrative division that Xiao Ding is familiar with in later generations, in the Great Song Kingdom, with Nanling as the boundary, Lingbei is the boundary of Zhongzhou, and Lingnan and then south to the seaside, all of which are Jiaozhou boundaries.

The east side of the Great Yuling is not far from the Wuyi Mountain Range, in the Great Song Kingdom, the east of the Wuyi Mountain Range is the boundary of Yuezhou, and the west side is the boundary of Zhongzhou and Jiaozhou.

In the west of Zhongzhou, there is a north-south direction of the Xuefeng Mountain Range, the west of the Xuefeng Mountain is a tributary of the Yangtze River called the Yuan River, which is also in the north-south direction, with this river as the boundary, the west side is the Jiangzhou boundary, and the east side is the Zhongzhou boundary.

At present, in addition to Qianling County in the south of Zhongzhou, which is occupied by the troops of the King of Jiaozhou, some Bin County, Qu County, and Yongcheng County in the west have also been occupied by the King of Jiaozhou.

In addition, the king of Jiaozhou also sent people to attack the Tingzhou Pass in Yuezhou at this time, because the Tingzhou Pass is located at the mountain pass of Wuyi Mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the troops of the king of Jiaozhou have not yet captured this pass.

However, according to Lu Changping, the entire Jiangzhou has now been subordinated to the king of Jiaozhou, and the governor of Jiangzhou is not as Song Yinzi said before, because of the small number of soldiers to surrender to the king of Jiaozhou, but the king of Jiaozhou has long secretly bribed Jiangzhou officials at all levels such as Jiangzhou Zhizhou and Tongju, so as soon as the king of Jiaozhou rebelled and sent troops over, the governor of Jiangzhou immediately surrendered and took the initiative to sacrifice the city, and none of the officials in the city objected.

Jiangzhou is adjacent to the west of the Great Tubo Kingdom, and the south is also bordered by the Dali Kingdom, so there are more than 100,000 border soldiers in Jiangzhou. As a result, these more than 100,000 border soldiers have also been incorporated by the king of Jiaozhou.

"In this way, the army of the king of Jiaozhou is not more than two or three hundred thousand?" Xiao Ding frowned and said.

"That's nature! Jiaozhou already has about 100,000 border troops, plus the king of Jiaozhou has privately raised as many as 50,000 soldiers over the years, and at the same time, the Dali State and the Great Southern Barbarian State also sent 50,000 and 70,000 soldiers respectively to support, plus the king of Jiaozhou collected more than 100,000 border soldiers in Jiangzhou, a total of nearly 400,000 troops! Lu Changping analyzed.

"So, since the start of the war, how many soldiers can the troops of the King of Jiaozhou have lost in total now?" Xiao Ding asked again.

"There should be tens of thousands. I heard that they have been attacking Tingzhou Pass in Yuezhou for many days, and it seems that they have lost tens of thousands of soldiers; They also lost a lot of soldiers and horses in attacking Binxian, Quxian, and Yongcheng County in our Zhongzhou, plus the number of losses they have lost in attacking our Jishui County these days, it should reach more than 20,000 people, and since the army you led today, they have directly annihilated and dealt with 40,000 soldiers, and if this is added together, they should have lost more than 70,000 troops. Lu Changping calculated in detail.

"So, they should still have more than 300,000 troops?" Xiao Ding said.

"Yes, in theory, it should be like this." Lu Changping nodded and replied.

"So, how many soldiers and horses does our army still have in the city now?" Ding continued to ask.

"The soldiers in the city were originally soldiers who retreated from Bin County, Qu County, and Yongcheng County, and there were more than 20,000 of them before, but in the past few days of continuous battles, more than 10,000 have been lost, and there are currently more than 9,000 defenders in the city. At the same time, I recruited two or three thousand migrant workers in the city and asked them to help carry supplies and other auxiliary defenses of the city. Lu Changping replied honestly.

"You're doing a great job! How many soldiers and horses can there be in Tingzhou Pass in Yuezhou now? Xiao Ding asked, he must know the specific front-line battle situation of both the enemy and us, otherwise he will not be able to make a correct strategy against the enemy.

"I don't know how many there are at the moment, I heard that there are 10,000 defenders before, and after so many days of guarding, I estimate that it is good to have half of them left." Lu Changping guessed.

"How many soldiers and horses did the King of Jiaozhou send over to attack Tingzhou Pass?" Xiao Ding continued to ask.

"It seems to be 70,000 soldiers and horses!" Lu Changping said uncertainly.

"The King of Jiaozhou has so many troops, why did he send 70,000 troops?" Xiao Ding asked.

"Actually, it's quite a lot. I heard that although the Dali State and the Great Southern Barbarian State promised to send troops to help the king of Jiaozhou, they did not send troops for a long time, and the troops used by the king of Jiaozhou are still the troops in Jiaozhou and Jiangzhou. According to Tanmayu's report, the defenders of Bin County, Qu County, Yongcheng County, and Qianling County are all 10,000 troops. In the past few days, there are also 70,000 troops attacking my Jishui County, plus 70,000 troops attacking Tingzhou Pass, a total of nearly 200,000, and the border defense of Jiangzhou, he also has to leave some people to guard, in case the big Tubo country takes the opportunity to attack Jiangzhou, wouldn't the king of Jiaozhou also have to suffer from the enemy! Lu Changping explained.

When Xiao Ding heard Lu Changping say this, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in his mind, and he suddenly thought: Can you think of some way to let the Great Tubo Kingdom send troops to attack the King of Jiaozhou? Let him also taste what it is like to be hit on both sides!

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