In total, it took only 10 days for more than 100,000 displaced people to gather in Ba County to be evacuated one after another, and one by one they embarked on the journey back to their hometowns.

Zhao Junsheng sent someone to find Duan Changyan on this day and asked: "Duan Changyan, these days under your auspices, the evacuation of the displaced people has been done well, the efficiency is very fast, and things are done very steadily, it seems that you still have some talent for governance, in view of the achievements you have made during this time, I must reward you, and I will also give you a promotion in your position, do you want to continue to serve in the army, or do you want to quit the army and turn into politics?" ”

Duan Changyan grinned, "If Your Majesty doesn't say it, the last general really doesn't know that he has the talent to be an official, and he is quite handy these days, so let's be an official, so that he can do more things for the people, and the last general's family will be poor after a few hours, if he is an official, at least he can find a way to let the people under his rule live a good life!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Don't forget what you said today, the purpose of being an official is to let the people under his rule live a good life!" That's good, I ordered you to be the Taishou of Ba County, but the military power of the garrison must be handed over, and the security forces are still under your control! ”

Duan Changyan saluted and said, "Thank you, Lord Longen!" ”

Since then, news has come from the direction of Yong'an every two days, and in the first few days, Zhao Junsheng also received news that the Song army was attacking Yong'an every day until this afternoon.

Lin Jinghui hurriedly came over and reported to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, I just received the news that the Song army had stopped attacking three days ago!" ”

Jiangzhou is not too far from Yong'an, and the message is still relatively fast, so it is relatively easy for Zhao Junsheng to receive the news here.

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Is there any other news?" ”

"Nope!"

"How's it going about I asking you to send someone to scout the road?"

Lin Jinghui hugged his fists and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the terrain around Miaojiang is too complicated, there are no roads in many places, and many Miao people are very hostile to outsiders, and outsiders are not allowed to enter at all, even if there is a road that can directly pass through Miaojiang, if you want to go over, you are afraid that you will have to fight with the Miao people first, and the minister thinks that the gains outweigh the losses!" ”

"At present, we have more cavalry here, less infantry, even if there is a road in the Miaojiang area, we can't let the cavalry pass, for the sake of safety, it is not recommended to force through that area without being familiar with the terrain, roads and local customs, it may bring great losses!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, Lin Jinghui's worry was not unreasonable, even the Song army did not dare to enter the Miao Xinjiang area easily, if it was easy to go, the Song army would not take the waterway to Yiling to attack Yong'an.

After several trade-offs, Zhao Junsheng still listened to Lin Jinghui's suggestion and gave up the idea of leading troops through Miao Jiang.

Two days later, Lin Jinghui rushed over and said with a happy face: "Your Majesty, the Song army has withdrawn!" Here's what I just received. In addition, the minister also received relevant news that the reason why the Song army withdrew was because the cavalry sent by Sima Chuzhi had arrived in the Dangyang area south and was moving towards the Yiling area! ”

Zhao Junsheng heard this: "This Xiao Si's words are really decisive, he even withdrew without hesitation, his task is to reinforce the Sichuan and Shu defenders, and he is not afraid that the Song court will investigate the responsibility of his unauthorized withdrawal?" ”

Dongfang Chen stood up and said: "Your Majesty, it is obvious that Xiao Siyan is not a reckless person, he knows how to make trade-offs, now he will withdraw from the army without consulting Jiankang, and at most he will lose his official position and dismiss when he goes back, but if he forcibly attacks Yong'an regardless of the unfavorable military situation, there is a danger that he will be attacked from front to back and be wiped out!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said to the ministers: "Zhuqing, since I have already come to Ba County, how can I not go to the White Emperor City to have a look?" Previously, because of the urgency of the war ahead, I didn't go to add trouble to Lu Shuang, but now that the Song army has retreated, I want to go to Yong'an again at this time, Zhuqing shouldn't stop it, right? ”

This Yong'an White Emperor City has a historical allusion, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the throne, his general Gongsun Shu established himself as the king of Shu in Ziyang City, and later Gongsun Shu pretended to use a local well to come out of the white mist, like the shape of the white dragon, so he called himself the White Emperor, built the capital in Ziyang City, and renamed the White Emperor City.

Later, during the Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Bei, the emperor of Shu Han, took Yong'an White Emperor City as the advance base for attacking Jiangdong, but suffered a heavy defeat, and later retreated to White Emperor City, leaving an allusion to Zhuge Liang in White Emperor City.

Now that these ministers see that Zhao Junsheng is going to Yong'an again, they can't stop it anymore, and they also want to visit this famous place.

As a result, none of the ministers objected.

Two days later, Zhao Junsheng, who was fully prepared, and the ministers of the ministers went to Yong'an under the escort of 3,000 men.

From Bajun to Yong'an, Zhao Junsheng and his entourage walked for eight or nine days, and these days, news kept coming from Yong'an, and the morale of the soldiers recovered, and their combat strength also recovered.

The Song army retreated to Yiling for these days, and happened to encounter the light cavalry of 5,000 cadres who arrived near Yiling and rushed from the direction of Dangyang.

At the beginning of the battle, the Song army was unable to cope and underprepared, and suffered a big loss, and was led by Liu Jinming, the cavalry general of the cadre army, to meet the main force with 3,000 cavalry, and then suddenly inserted 2,000 cavalry from the right flank.

Most of the soldiers and horses under the command of Xiao Siyan, the commander of the Song army, moved at a speed, and there was no specified time to intercept them, causing the cadres to rush into the sword and shield soldiers and archers with only a slight resistance, killing the Song army in chaos.

After the flank and middle of the Song army formation were chaotic by the cavalry of the cadre army, the generals of the Song army who were blocking the front were worried about the safety behind them, and they were afraid that they could not deal with the cavalry of the cadre army in front with all their strength, and collapsed on the spot.

Xiao Siyan had to order the army to retreat and approach Yiling City, and the cadres rushed and killed for a while, and were chasing and killing the Song army, but Xiao Siyan had already set up a military formation again under Yiling City to respond.

Liu Jinming saw that the enemy's back was against the city wall, and his cavalry did not have the depth and detour space to charge and kill, so he was worried that he would be trapped in the formation and could not get out, so he had to withdraw his troops.

Afterwards, Liu Jinming didn't have time to count the number of enemies killed, so he could only make a rough estimate, about five or six thousand enemies were killed, as for how many there were, I was afraid that I would have to ask Xiao Siyan.

Next, Xiao Siyan gathered the rout, reorganized the army, strictly disciplined the army, once again led the troops to approach the cadre army Liu Jinming, and took the initiative to fight the enemy cavalry with infantry.

Liu Jinming was not afraid of Xiao Siyan, and immediately ordered soldiers and horses to fight against Xiao Siyan.

This time, Xiao Siyan set up a military formation in the wilderness, and the military formation was dense, and the number of crossbowmen and pikemen in the army was increased.

Archers are not easy to train, but crossbowmen are not difficult to train, the Song army is not as good as the dry army in terms of cavalry, and every major battle has suffered a big loss from the cavalry of the dry army, so they have been looking for ways to restrain the cavalry all these years, not to mention, they have really found some effective methods.

The first is to use a dense crossbow array to deal with the light cavalry of the cadre army, the crossbows used by the Song army are all improved, they are multi-shot repeating crossbows, and by increasing the mechanism and labor-saving devices and improving the bowstring, the operation of the repeater has been greatly improved, and the killing range has been greatly improved.

The second is to use long weapons to deal with the cavalry of the dry army, and the army of the Southern Dynasties changed the spearmen to pikemen, and the lethality of the spear was too high by increasing the length of the spear and the toughness of the barrel of the spear.

Liu Jinming sent several small groups of cavalry to make several tentative attacks, trying to find the weak point of the Song army's defensive strength, and finally found it for him.

This position is located in the southeast corner of the Song army's military formation, Liu Jinming immediately sent 2,000 cavalry to attack, leaving 2,000 cavalry as a response, once the enemy's army formation was chaotic, he immediately took advantage of the situation to rush and kill, completely crushing the Song army.

But this time the situation did not seem to be as Liu Jinming expected, the flaw left by Xiao Siyan turned out to be just a decoy, after the two thousand cavalry began to attack, the Song army's formation changed, and the original weak point of defense became a military formation combining layers of sword and shield soldiers and pikemen.

The cavalry of the cadre army overthrew the five rows of Song infantry in front, but they were blocked in front of the sixth row of infantry, and then the crossbow array of the Song army deployed in the middle of the army began to exert its might, and the rain of arrows fell from the sky, and the cavalry of the cadre army who were blocked and lost their speed fell one by one screaming.

The two thousand cavalry lost half of them in a moment, and Liu Jinming, who was commanding in the rear, saw a cold sweat on his forehead, and he immediately said: "It seems that this time I kicked the iron plate, and ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops and withdraw!" ”

"Dangdangdang······"

After a series of crisp gongs, the cavalry of the Qianjun army, which was attacking with less than 1,000 left, immediately turned to turn around, but fortunately, the cavalry of the Qianjun was superb in horsemanship and turned to turn around in time, but in the process of withdrawing, they lost more than 200 cavalry.

Yong'an County, the day after Zhao Junsheng and the ministers arrived here, the general situation of the battle under Yiling City was transmitted here.

"Liu Jinming's 5,000 cavalry defeated the Song army in the first battle, and only lost more than 200 cavalry, but this time the battle directly lost more than 1,200 cavalry, and the Song army killed and wounded only more than 300 people, the specific situation is like this······"

Zhao Junsheng frowned after listening to Lin Jinghui's report and said: "In this way, Liu Jinming fell into the trap of Xiao Sihua, Xiao Sihua deliberately showed flaws in the military formation at the beginning, Liu Jinming was fooled, and ordered two thousand cavalry to attack, but I didn't expect that in the process of charging into the formation, the Song army temporarily changed formation, and these two thousand cavalry hit the iron plate?" ”

"That's true!"

Zhao Junsheng was quite annoyed and said: "Liu Jinming is still underestimating the enemy, I have long said that when dealing with the army of the Southern Dynasties, don't underestimate the enemy, but some people don't listen." Okay, kick the iron plate, right? Also, with light cavalry to charge the battle, was Liu Jinming's head kicked by a donkey? Spread my will, and ordered Sima Chuzhi to immediately recall Liu Jinming and let him go to the prison to stay sober for a while! ”

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