The vanguard army from Jingzhao Mansion to Lingnan walked for more than 20 days, and in order to maintain its combat strength, the vanguard army did not rush as quickly as it went from Linzhou to Jingzhao Mansion, and basically set up camp after traveling 100 miles a day. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no problem with the horseshoe installed on the horseshoe, with the protection of the horseshoe, the horse's hooves are very little worn and almost not damaged, which makes Yang Wenguang very satisfied.

Since entering the hot and humid area of the two lakes, the vanguard army has strictly followed the regulations formulated by Zhong Hao, the marching Sima, to avoid miasma, drinking barley porridge every day, chewing betel nuts, and not drinking raw water.

The combat strength of the vanguard army was not damaged, which made all the soldiers gear up and prepare to make a big fight, so that those southern barbarian troops could have a good look at the majesty of the western army.

When the vanguard army arrived at Guizhou on the west road of Guangnan, it was already late September.

The Western Army led by Di Qing set off ten days later than the Vanguard Army, and they set off from Jingzhao Mansion in early September. However, the task of counterinsurgency in the south this time is urgent, and Di Qing has clear regulations on the speed of the army going south, how much to march every day, and where it must go, there are plans, so the army is much faster than usual. Now the western army going south has been ruled by the road on Jinghu South Road.

After a short rest and replenishment in Tanzhou, they will then leave for Lingnan.

Although the elite army led by Di Qing this time was only 30,000 in the Western Army, there were as many as 70,000 or 80,000 people in addition to the miscellaneous army and the people who transported the baggage, and it was claimed that the 200,000 elite army went south to Lingnan to quell the rebellion, and the momentum was surging.

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Before the vanguard army arrived in Guizhou, they learned some bad news one after another.

When Yang Ji briefly quelled the rebellion in Lingnan, because of insufficient preparation, he hurriedly attacked, and Jiang Kai and Zhang Zhong were defeated and killed, which made the prestige of the official army decline, and Nong Zhigao's army won a great victory.

Therefore, after Di Qing took command, he immediately ordered the generals in Liangguang and Guangzhou to stick to their headquarters, and not to engage the rebels before his arrival, so as to cause another defeat, fall into the prestige of the official army, and also affect the battle situation.

Di Qing brought a southward counterinsurgency army this time, claiming to bring 200,000, and came to Lingnan with great momentum.

After hearing the news, Nong Zhigao's army took the initiative to shrink its defense, and many of the less important cities that were beaten down, after the looting, Nong Zhigao's army took the initiative to retreat in order to shrink its forces and defend Yongzhou and other important towns.

In order to seize the merits, Chen Shu, the ruler of Guangnan West Road, took advantage of Di Qing's arrival to lead his troops to seize these cities abandoned after the defeat of Nong Zhigao's army, in order to have the merit of recovering the lost territory.

After seizing some cities, Chen Shu couldn't help but feel a little complacent and self-righteous, and immediately reported to the imperial court that he had led his troops to recover a large area of lost territory, thinking that his subordinates were very strong. He had long forgotten that these cities were given up by Nong Zhigao's army.

Later, Chen Shutan heard that Kunlun Pass was not guarded by Nong Zhigao's army. Kunlun Pass is the gateway to the north of Yongzhou, like the throat of the esophagus, guarding the fortress of the north and south, known as the reputation of 'Xiongguan alone in the south of the town', it is really a husband when the pass, ten thousand people can not open such a male pass!

The strategic location of Kunlun Pass is very important, but I don't know if Nong Zhigao has no military knowledge, or if he has some other ideas, Kunlun Pass is such an important place that there are no people to guard.

This Kunlun Pass is the barrier of Yongzhou, occupying this Kunlun Pass, it is equivalent to opening the door of Yongzhou, so Chen Shu tried in vain to make another great achievement, personally led the troops to seize the Kunlun Pass, but before reaching Kunlun Pass, Jinchengyi near Kunlun Pass encountered 3,000 Nong Zhigao army that withdrew from Penn to Yongzhou.

Originally, they were all unguarded encounters, and they had an absolute advantage in numbers, so if they were really fighting to the death, they might not be defeated.

When the 8,000 Lingnan Army led by Chen Shu was defeated as soon as it came into contact with Nong Zhigao's army, it was basically crushed at the first touch.

In just half an hour, the Lingnan Army was annihilated, and only a few generals such as Chen Shu and Yuan Yong fled to Guizhou.

When Zhong Hao heard the news, he was completely speechless for the Lingnan Army, but then there was even more speechless news.

After Yang Jin, the former leader of the Liangguang Rebellion, was ordered by the imperial court to return to Beijing for investigation, his deputy Guangnan West Road Jinglu pacified Yu Jing, but he was retained in his original position.

Yu Jing, as one of the "Four Advisors of Qingli", is still more senior than Yang Jin, and he is a pure civil minister, who originally came to assist Yang Jin, and did not specifically command the war, so he was less implicated in the defeat.

However, he was defeated after all, and he was very faceless, Yu Jing felt that if he didn't make some contributions, he was afraid that he would no longer have the capital to gain a foothold in the DPRK in the future.

Originally, I heard that Nong Zhigao's army took the initiative to shrink, and Chen Shu and others tried their best to ask for battle, wanting to seize the city abandoned by the Nong army.

Yu Jing knew that Chen Shu was afraid of Di Qing's handsome order and wanted to pick a leader himself. After all, he is a Wenchen, and he is a Wenchen with a very good reputation and qualifications, Di Qing does not dare to do anything to him.

Yu Jing felt that it was good to let Chen Shu and them lead the troops to take back some cities, and it would be good to whitewash their merits and save some face, and since the Nong army took the initiative to shrink, it should not come to attack again, and the danger was not great.

Who knew that Chen Shu and they were so inch, and they were encountering the retreating Nong army! Today's Lingnan army saw Nong Zhigao's army, it was completely like a mouse seeing a cat, and before the Nong army attacked, their own position was chaotic.

Eight thousand soldiers, in less than half an hour, have been completely wiped out, how embarrassing is this!

Now even Guizhou is in danger, these 8,000 soldiers are the only soldiers who can be used by Yu Jing in China and still have some combat power, and now there are not many soldiers who can even defend the city, in case the Nong army really wants to attack, it is really difficult to say if they can't defend it!

Di Qing is coming soon, and as soon as his army arrives, I am afraid that he will never have the opportunity to make great contributions. After all, Di Qing is in charge of the affairs of the two lakes and the two regions this time, and the territory under his jurisdiction is arbitrary, and no one can restrain him. I, the pacification envoy of Guangnan West Road, was only his subordinate, but he was not Yang Jin's deputy when he was in charge of the Lingnan Jingluo.

If you want to save face, you have to make a contribution before Di Qing arrives. However, Yu Jing knew that he was not proficient in fighting, and even if he knew soldiers like Yang Jin, he would have no available soldiers under him.

Yu Jing felt that he was a literati, and his strongest ability was to rely on his brain, not by force, so he used his strengths and avoided weaknesses and prepared to outwit.

After thinking about it, don't say it, I finally let Yu Jing come up with a "strange plan"!

Of course, this "conspiracy" is just what he thinks is a conspiracy!

The Nong Zhigao tribe used to live in the area of Guangyuan Prefecture and in the gap between the Great Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi.

Jiaozhi has been brutally oppressing the Nong Zhigao tribe, and the Nong Zhigao tribe has resisted Jiaozhi several times, but they have all been cleaned up, and even Nong Zhigao's father was caught and killed by the Jiaozhi people. Nong Zhigao was also arrested at the time, and his tribe was later released after being ransomed.

Cochin was later Vietnam, and now the Ly Dynasty is in power. Before the Great Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi had always been the territory of China, and later Song Taizu thought that the country was too big to manage, and after pacifying the Southern Han Dynasty, he did not let it fight any further.

As a result, a poor and arrogant small country was born, and Nong Zhigao was bullied by them, and he couldn't live in Guangyuan Prefecture at all, so he attached the request to the table.

As a result, after discovering that the Lingnan army of the Great Song Dynasty was like a local chicken and a dog, he simply burned down the old nest with a fire and moved his family directly to Yongzhou.

Thinking of this, Yu Jing thought of a way that he thought was a good idea. He felt that since the Jiaozhi people had beaten Nong Zhigao so badly, the Great Song Dynasty could have spent money to hire Jiaozhi people to send troops to clean up Nong Zhigao.

And if you use this method, you don't have to die in the Great Song Dynasty, you only need to spend a few dollars, which is really cost-effective.

Yu Jing is a anxious surname, just do it when you think of it, he sent 30,000 yuan to Li Dezheng, the king of Jiaozhi State, asked him to lead the troops to Yongzhou to meet, and also provided grain and grass after entering the country, and also played the Great Song Dynasty court for him, and asked Li Dezheng to be awarded the title of "King of Jiaozhi".

And Li Dezheng, the king of Jiaozhi, did not bargain, claiming that he would lead 50,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry to help the Great Song Dynasty pacify Nong Zhigao.

The vanguard army heard the news that it was rumored that Li Dezheng, the king of Jiaozhi, had sent troops.

Zhong Hao originally had a lot of respect for Yu Jing, one of the "Four Commandments of Qingli", but after hearing this rumor near Guizhou, he couldn't help but lose his respect for him in an instant.

Since ancient times, there have been several people who have used foreign troops to quell civil strife, and several have had good results. Not to mention it, let's just say that in the former Tang Dynasty, in order to let the Uighurs send troops to help quell the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Suzong actually promised: "On the day of Kecheng, the land and Shishu will return to the Tang Dynasty, and the gold silk and women will return to the Uighurs." Later, after Chang'an in the west and Luoyang in the east were recovered, Tang Suzong had no choice but to fulfill the contract, and ordered the Uighur soldiers to plunder for three days before the Tang army entered the city.

This kind of recovery is only the city and land, but the most important people's hearts have been lost.

Although Yu Jing did not dare and did not add the conditions that allowed the Jiaozhi soldiers to loot, but when the war was raging, who could guarantee that these alien troops would not wantonly burn and loot the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the object of Yu Jing's borrowing of troops is still a Vietnamese monkey who has not taken courtesy, righteousness and shame seriously since ancient times, which is even more unbelievable.

This is a typical wolf into the house! If the Jiaozhi people came, the people of Quang Nam West Road would have to experience the looting of Vietnamese monkeys again after being burned and plundered by Nong Zhigao's army.

Yu Jing This is a completely stupid move, he only sees that Nong Zhigao's army can't beat the Jiaozhi people, and he doesn't want to think that if the Jiaozhi people really destroy the Nong Zhigao army, looking at the Lingnan army that can't even beat the Nong Zhigao army, will be so at the mercy of it? If the Jiaozhi people are in chaos again, what will the Lingnan Army rely on to subdue them?

With the rude, righteous and shameless character of Jiaozhi people, in Zhong Hao's opinion, this is simply bound to be chaos.

Yu Jing's move is really a loss of honorable demeanor!

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Yang Wenguang originally wanted to go to Guizhou to say hello to Guangxi Shuaisi, so it would be better to coordinate the pace then. But before I arrived in Guizhou, I heard these rumors and felt that I was exempt.

Originally, the Western Army looked down on these Lingnan Army, and these Lingnan Army even thought that the Western Army was here to fight for merit, and they didn't look at their bears, they were all beaten by Nong Zhigao, and they still wanted to fight for merit. Yang Wenguang felt that this pig teammate, it was better not to bring it, and then he would only make a mistake and would not be able to help at all. This counterinsurgency matter still depends on the Western Army itself.

The vanguard army led by Yang Wenguang did not enter Guizhou City, but only sent someone to Guangxi Shuaisi to report it, and asked a few veterans who were familiar with the terrain near Yongzhou to be guides, and then continued south.

The role of this vanguard was to probe the enemy's situation and test the enemy's combat strength, and Yang Wenguang planned to continue to go south to explore the vicinity of Yongzhou. Since Nong Zhigao wanted to shrink his forces and concentrate on retreating to Yongzhou, Yang Wenguang planned to lead the vanguard army to explore the terrain around Yongzhou clearly, and test the combat strength of Nong Zhigao's army.

Since Nong Zhigao has shrunk his troops, he may have the meaning of a decisive battle with the Western Army and a decisive victory in a battle. Yang Wenguang felt that he should find a spacious flat land suitable for a decisive battle, so that it could be suitable for the western cavalry to give full play to its advantages.

Guangxi's mountains and rivers are vertical and horizontal, the terrain is complex, known as the saying of eight mountains, one water and one field, and there are many mountains. There are many mountainous areas, and the terrain is naturally complex and difficult to navigate, so it is also very important to choose a suitable combat location.

If you want to find a spacious flat land suitable for the cavalry of the Western Army, you have to rely on the locals as guides to guide the way, otherwise it will take a lot of effort to find the vanguard of the Western Army who is not familiar with the place by yourself.

Because of this, Yang Wenguang did not put forward any other requirements for the Guangxi Shuaisi, as long as a few veterans who are familiar with the road terrain and can ride horses in Lingnan are used as guides.

The Lingnan soldiers who were sent by the Guangxi Shuai Si were reluctant to go after hearing that they were going to investigate the enemy near Yongzhou. They are probably afraid that they will encounter Nong Zhigao's army again. These Lingnan soldiers shouted that their feet hurt and they had headaches, and they found various reasons for not wanting to go.

Yang Wenguang couldn't help but be furious: I don't expect you to lead the way in order to go to war, it's really annoying! This is not begging you, this is a military order, and if you don't want to go, you will be dealt with by military law.

But no matter how Yang Wenguang intimidated and coerced, these Lingnan troops just didn't go, and they all said that even if they were dealt with by military law, they wouldn't go. These Lingnan soldiers are afraid that they have been completely frightened by Nong Zhigao's army.

Yang Wenguang was so angry that his eyes widened, and he called his own soldiers to pull these Lingnan soldiers out and cut them down on the spot.

Several Lingnan soldiers shouted that they were the Guangxi Army, and Yang Wenguang had no right to impose military law on them, even if they had to be dealt with by military law because they did not respect military orders, it would be the Guangxi Marshal to carry it out.

Zhong Hao felt that if he really cut these pieces of hob meat, he was afraid that he would offend the Lingnan Army even more. Although it's not a big deal to offend this group of rice buckets, I'm afraid that I won't be able to find a guide to Yongzhou to explore the terrain by then.

At that moment, Zhong Hao hurriedly came out to sing red faces and pretend to be good people, pleaded for those Lingnan soldiers, and promised to give them a reward of ten taels of silver, which was immediately cashed. And said that if they gave the vanguard army a stable place, after exploring the terrain, they would have made a great contribution, and there would be a reward of ten taels of silver.

Yang Wenguang's coercion was far less than Zhong Hao's inducement, and several Lingnan soldiers couldn't help but hurriedly agree when they saw the silver, expressing their willingness to lead the way.

Yang Wenguang saw the appearance of these hob meats and saw the money, and couldn't help but blow his beard and stare angrily, eager to cut them. This kind of military affairs did not depend on military orders, but on silver, so as to drive these pieces to the meat. If it was in the Western Army, they didn't know how many times their heads had been cut off.

After letting those Lingnan soldiers go down, Zhong Hao persuaded Yang Wenguang and said: "Uncle Shi, don't be angry, these Lingnan soldiers are corrupt and have long been corrupted, and they can't be angry with them." If Uncle Shi is really angry, wait until he finishes investigating the enemy's situation, and then cut them down! ”

Yang Wenguang laughed and said: "Uncle, I'm so bored, I have to keep remembering the hatred of a few little soldiers!" ”

Zhong Hao saw these Lingnan soldiers, and he could be regarded as having a little intuitive feeling for the Lingnan army, alas, no wonder the Lingnan army was not useful, just looking at the hob meat appearance of these Lingnan soldiers, he knew how rotten the Lingnan army was.

In the Great Song Dynasty, there seems to be a strict distinction between the combat power and the region, the more north the national combat power is stronger, and the further south it is, the weaker the national combat power there is.

Of course, not only the Great Song Dynasty, but also the dynasties before the Great Song Dynasty, and the dynasties after it, seem to be like this.

Zhong Hao thinks that this situation is probably related to the difficulty of the food source. The north is cold and barren, and if you want to eat well, you need people to constantly fight with the sky, fight with the earth, and fight against the harsh natural environment.

The situation is quite different in the south and in the north, where the climate is warm and humid, and food is abundant and easier. Throw a few seeds in the field and you will grow enough food. As for those who are lazy and don't even want to plant on the ground, there are wild fruits on trees everywhere in the south, and even eating wild fruits will not starve people to death. Therefore, the farther south people go, the less tenacity they have to fight against the sky, and once the courage of blood and qi disappears, they will collapse for thousands of miles.

In the history of China, the establishment of political power was basically unified from the north to the south, and very few southern regimes could unify the north, and even if they did, they could not escape the fate of being wiped out by the northern regime.

In today's Great Song Dynasty, no matter where a war is fought, it must ultimately be solved by the Western Army! (To be continued.) )